Notre Coeur
READING AGE 12+
Guy de Maupassant´s last masterpiece "Notre Coeur" (AKA "A Woman´s Pastime") tells the story of a widow, a woman without a heart, frigid and probably a lesbian. The hero, a man who loves and faces this fascinating and awesome being, takes another mistress, who can hardly satisfy him. He is devastated by this passionate love, violent, melancholic and cruel. This is a painful novel, written by an already sick writer, in which he says farewell to all women in his life, the ones who presented the desire, the torment, and the victims...
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They went out. She had on a mauve dress that harmonized so well with the verdure of the trees and the blue of the sky that she appeared to him like some amazing apparition, of an entirely new style of beauty and seductiveness. Her tall and willowy form, her bright, clean-cut features, the little blaze of blond hair beneath a hat that was mauve, ……
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