Zdeněk Havlíček Book order (chronological)

Výbor z povídek Guy de Maupassanta, jednoho z nejslavnějších francouzských spisovatelů 2. poloviny 19. století, vybral, uspořádal a nově přeložil Jiří Žák. Sbírce vévodí Kulička, příběh nevěstky, která svou lidskostí a nefalšovaným vlastenectvím zahanbí licoměrné, sobecké měšťáky, která byla poprvé vydána roku 1880 v souboru Médanské večery. Kulička je autorova novelistická prvotina a francouzský kritik A. Thibaudet o ní výstižně poznamenal, že Maupassant „nenapsal už nikdy nic lepšího jenom proto, že dokonalost se prostě překonat nedá".

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Prompted by his theories of heredity and environment, Zola set out to show Nana, "the golden fly," rising out of the underworld to feed on society—a predetermined product of her origins. Nana's latent destructiveness is mirrored in the Empire's, and they reflect each others' disintegration and final collapse in 1890. Built around the book's scientific skeleton is a powerful, sensual atmosphere, and a rich use of words which elevate the novel beyond the realistic platform into a "poem of male desires."