In 1880 Maupassant works as a chronicler in two Parisian newspapers, writes poetry and novels, and has dreamed of creating a novel for three years. One of his jovial friends, says that the idea was thrown into a fairy tale in a summer house in Sartuville near the river. memories of reporter's work and various events. Most of the characters have prototypes in journalistic environments. Among writers, it is claimed that in Belle Amy's image a sergeant can be found, loved by the readers of the Gilles Blas newspaper - Röhne Mesbóa, Baron Touess . Has a reputation of a freeloader, of a person who has been able to use women to write for him. One of the editions of the novel is the dedication of Mrs. B.
The story of the novel
It was built on the rise of a provincial youth, George Douroa, who from a small reporter rises to a deputy and a politician, taking advantage of the vitality of his beautiful appearance and the impact on women. This is not a novelty. The seduction work has its literary masterpieces in the images of Don Juan and Casanova. The eroticism of the Parisian manners is also deals with by the enlighteners (Alain Lussage, Pierre de Marivo, Denny Didero) are also excited by Balzac. Georges Durrois, for about two years, traversed the way from a small office clerk to a skilled reporter who took advantage of his friendship with editor Charles Forerest, took his place in his family as a husband and, accordingly, a "student" of the clever and intelligent Mrs. Fortis, who dictates the articles and the writings. He keeps his appetite for women through his love affairs with the temperate lover, Mrs. Marele, who corrupts him and becomes complicit in his highly conformist way of life. In the escalation of conquests, women are the most important. They are not just compensations in the minor misconduct of the profession, but they convey the conquering energy of the aspiring parvenoy to the social peaks in public and political life. Duero seduces the wife of the owner of the newspaper Walter, takes advantage of her inveterate to understand the machinations in the high political levels, broke down his uncomfortable marriage to Madeleine, kidnapped Susan, the young daughter of Walter to create a family profitable for his start to politics.
Characteristics of the novel
It is centrifugal, dynamic and unfolded on a wide social background. In its first layer the work follows the line of psychology and objectivism. The young man with a mediocre education at first has a clear appreciation for his modest possibilities. He is a small gesture of nobleness, of humankind and self-satisfied self-reflection. Maupassant has been exhaustively describing his appearance, stopping on an essential symbol of masculinity-mustache. For the epoch, they condense the sensuality and define the boundaries of the erotic: "His mustache has been curling over the lips, puffy, dense, nice, reddish-violet, with a brighter hue to the stinging edges." In another place, the whiskers' description psychologically describes the hero's nature in more depth, emphasizing the aggressiveness as an inherent type of Duroa's behavior: , sharp as needles, threatening, enormous, frowning, creepy, daring. This outlook for the readers and contemporaries of Maupassant often correlates with the author himself. In the focus of the narrative, Duroa is an active figure that carries the features of a particular type of society, a product of the epoch. Individualism is manifested in the specific acts of his behavior, but in the repeatability of these acts, the inner essence of the hero is continually proclaiming what she has mastered others, those experienced in the race for power and wealth. In the world of decaying human values, women have infinite significance. In the life of the writer, they acquire a dominant meaning. The writer's father Gustav is discredited in the family by a lively and powerful mother who, for the rest of his life, does not miss the reins of his personal and professional life. In the eyes of her two sons, she is knowledgeable, capable of providing largely secular and professional contacts, she instructs and guides.
Despite her fragile neurotic health, Lor creates in Maupassant the dependence of the taste. in the novel they bring their individual differences, but each one adds with their behavior something to the general portrait of a certain behavioral type for the epoch and sex. In women as a symbol of sensuality are referred to the hair: "enticing cloud", "puffy curly hair" (such as luxury dolls (Susan Walter), hair cut in high hairstyle, and little curls in the bed (Mrs. Marel). The dress also psychologizes images with precision of detail, expresses temperament, taste, sensuality, woman's mentality, primacy of instincts, or intellects. The image of the protagonist and, to a certain extent, Walter's image reflects an inherent naturalism from the meaningful layers of objectivism and psychology in the symbolic spaces of the novel in a new level of generalization. The headline in "Bell Ami" paradoxically predetermines one type of human behavior. The humor will be destined to open up the secrets of human eroticism, but subconsciously will sit in a broad social of prophets far beyond the intimacy of passions. The permissive of infidelity as a style of proving and asserting the sensuous and pragmatic passions in Duroa directs it in the successful direction of the stages of "rise". The novel "Bel Ami" dialogues with a wide audience, especially with the one who perceives the psychology of the art-naturalist school as a constructive pathos to the denial of the stupidity and moral decay of society. The enigmatic title associated with a name given by a prematurely aged child , universalises the anti-seismic nature of confidentiality in public and private life.