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par Guy de Maupassant
Dans l’éloge funèbre prononcé lors des obsèques de Maupassant, Émile Zola déclara que Boule de suif était une « œuvre parfaite de tendresse, d’ironie et de vaillance. Du premier coup, [Maupassant] donnait l’œuvre décisive, il se classait parmi les maîtres. » Zola était beau joueur puisque Boule de suif écrasait les autres nouvelles des Soirées de Médan , y compris celle écrite par Zola, L’Attaque du moulin . Boule de suif est effectivement un chef-d’œuvre de style, de composition, dont le réalisme empreint de tendre poésie et d’ironie impitoyable place son auteur parmi les plus grands de la littérature française. Boule de suif est donc une œuvre primordiale dans l’histoire des lettres.
Guy de maupassant.
As tired French soldiers trudge back from battle, residents of the French town of Rouen anticipate the arrival of the occupying Prussian army. Once those Prussians arrive, the townspeople’s fear dissipates—some of them even befriend the Prussian soldiers, while others despise them and even murder occupying soldiers occasionally. There is much animosity in the air—but, still, life has to go on, and eventually people start planning for the future.
Three well-off men ( Mr. Carré-Lamadon , Mr. Loiseau , and Count Herbert de Breville ) decide one night to leave Rouen and pursue commercial interests in La Havre, where there is no Prussian occupation. The next day they gather their wives and meet outside a stagecoach, which is ready to take the six of them and four others through Normandy.
The other four passengers include two nuns (who say quiet and mumble prayers most of the ride), one republican ( Cornudet ), and one prostitute, Miss Rousset . Miss Rousset (also known as “Ball-of-Fat”) quickly becomes the object of interest and scorn in the carriage, as the other women make it clear she is not welcome and her presence is an embarrassment. However, hours later when the coach is stuck in snow and nobody has eaten all day, Miss Rousset produces a basket of food and wine that has been underneath her skirt. Inevitably, the rest of the carriage changes their attitude towards her and one by one they accept her kind offer of food. Suddenly, everyone is amicable, and the group talks about politics and Prussians for the rest of the journey. Miss Rousset impresses the group with stories of her resistance against the occupying soldiers, and she chastises Cornudet for his republican sympathies and lack of loyalty to Bonaparte.
Still moving much slower than expected, night falls and the group comes upon the town of Tôtes and finds an inn. Here, they are greeted by a terrifying sound: broken French spoken with a heavy German accent. There is a Prussian commander waiting for them, asking them to exit the carriage. While all are traveling with the permission of German officers back in Rouen, the group is still nervous. They share their papers (which have their names and occupations on them) with the commander.
The group enters the inn and sits down for dinner, fairly happy even though everyone is tired. Then the inn-keeper enters with a strange request: the Prussian commander has asked to see Miss Rousset alone. She at first refuses, but the group pressures her into going. “It is for you that I do this,” she tells the group. She comes back flustered but mum about what he asked for, and the topic is dropped as everyone eats dinner. There is more discussion about politics, the war, and the bad behavior of the enemy.
The next day, the group finds that the stagecoach has not been prepared for them. No one understands why it would not be ready, so Mr. Loiseau, Mr. Carré-Lamadon, and the Count walk into town to find the driver. Along their way, they find French townspeople cohabitating with the Prussian soldiers, and the Prussians doing kind favors for the townspeople. The men are shocked and a little disdainful, but a townsperson explains, essentially, that these soldiers are people too and that the poor—of any country—must look out for one another. The men move on and find their driver, who informs them that the Prussian commander had ordered him not to ready the carriage. No one understands why.
Later that night, Miss Rousset tells the group that the Prussian officer demanded that she sleep with him, and everyone reacts with outrage. The next morning, however, the six wealthy travelers are disgruntled and grow resentful. They are annoyed at Miss Rousset for being the reason that they are stranded (even though it is clearly the fault of the officer). Remembering her lower social status and her profession, the wealthier members of the group come to a mutual, damning conclusion: “Since it is her trade, why should she refuse this one more than another?”(In other words, that she should sleep with the officer, against her principles, so that the group can go free.)
The next day, determined to get Miss Rousset to do what they wish, the wealthier travelers confer with each other and decide that, rather than asking her outright, they will work the topic into conversation over dinner and discuss how, throughout history, sacrifices have been made for the greater good. Even the two nuns (albeit accidentally) add to the pressure by assuring Miss Rousset that, in religious life, an act is judged by its intention. Miss Rousset is solemn and quiet. Later that night, she gives in and does what everyone had hoped: she sleeps with the German officer. The group finds out while she is doing it, and they crassly celebrate their clever plan. The next day, the group leaves.
In her rush to get ready in the morning, Miss Rousset forgets to pack food. The rest of the group all have baskets of provisions, but nobody will even look at Miss Rousset, let alone share their food with her. The three married ladies talk emptily of high society chatter just to specifically exclude the prostitute. Miss Rousset is heart-broken by the hypocrisy of the rest of the group and by the act she had to endure, and she ends the story quietly crying the corner of the carriage headed north.
Created in late 1879, especially for the collection of Les Soirées de Médan («Evenings at Médan»), Boule de Suif («Ball of Fat») has become one of the most famous short stories by Guy de Maupassant. Here the author conveys the real picture of the events of the Franco-Prussian War, the people, who participated in it on both sides, their feelings, thoughts and actions with inimitable skill.
The novel tells about a group of French residents of Rouen, whose city has been surrendered by the French army in favor of the Prussian winners. Patriotic and, at the same time, frightened citizens were not able to endure everyday co-existence next to enemies and decided to leave the city, they were going to settle in the place, where there weren’t any German man — in the far corner of France and England. Among the fugitives there were people, belonging to different orders: counts, manufacturers, wine merchants, nuns, one democrat and one woman of easy virtue, called Boule de Suif. The main plot of the novel concentrates on the last person. Boule de Suif (real name of the girl Elizabeth Rousset) turns out the «litmus paper» with help of which the true nature of all the heroes of the story becomes uncovered.
Composition «Boule de Suif» — classic in the genre of the novel. Exposition is the scene of the retreat of the French army and the occupation of Rouen by Prussian soldiers. The plot of the story comes at the moment, when the main characters are sitting in the carriage, and detecting among them a prostitute from Rouen. Negative attitude to this woman is little by little replaced by their animal hunger and gratitude to her, as to the person, who has feed them.Common trouble makes the passengers closer and sincere patriotism of Elizabeth Rousset conciliates them with her type of work.
The culmination of the novel happens in Tote, where the Prussian officer detains them, demanding intimate services from Boule de Suif day in and day out.Frightened by the delay, peaceful female fellow travelers begin to show their irritation. Respectable, at first sight, people refuse to understand, why a prostitute can not discharge her professional obligations and help all of them out of the unpleasant situation, which has been happened through her own fault. Yielding to the persuasion, Boule de Suif is ridiculed by everybody at the time of her intimacy with the Prussian officer. As soon as the woman performs her task, criticism of the society culminates and people turn away from her, as from a leper. The sad denouement is accompanied with bitter tears of the woman and the patriotic sounds of the «Marseillaise».
The character of Elizabeth Rousset — one of the most colorful in the novel. In spite of her «profession», she shows herself like a kind human (she generously shares food with all the passengers of the coach, visits the christening of unknown child), patriotic (Boule de Suif nearly strangles a German soldier and then leave Rouen, refuses to make love with Cornudet, being in the same house with the enemy), self-denying (she agrees to sacrifice not only her body, but also moral principles for the rescue of the society, and spends the night with the Prussian officer).
Wine merchant Loiseau is shown like skillful business man in the novel (he manages to come to the agreement about the supply of his wine with the owner of the inn in Tote, while everybody worries about the long delay and possible troubles) and old fox, who likes to poke his nose into everything (Loiseau spies upon Boule de Suif, when she is refusing Cornudet) and moved by his principles to satisfy the wallet and the body (he wheedles Boule de Suif to get the desired food).
Democrat Cornudet is a patriot only by word of mouth. All his fight with the enemy is digging of the trenches and only until the enemy appears on the scene.Cornudet is free from social prejudices, a little dissolute, but honest at the same time. Only he has enough courage to call his fellow travelers scoundrels for the pressure that leads Boule de Suif to the bed of the Prussian officer.
Respectable women — Comtesse of Bréville, factory-owner Carré-Lamadon and wife of wine merchant Loiseau — observe moral standards only outwardly. As soon as Boule de Suif went upstairs to the bedroom of one man, they were happy to discuss the intimate process, cracking so «greasy» jokes about this act as their husbands. Two nuns in the story also have not special moral qualities — they persuade Boule de Suif along with other people to do one of the most unseemly, religiously, act.
The important artistic features of the novels are realistic descriptions of people, characters, landscapes, objects, events. All of them are full of details taken from the real life and are written with a very lively and picturesque language.
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