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Article: Maupassant's Boule de suif and the Tales of the Franco-Prussian War. (book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Wrexham, Wales: Bridge Books, 2001. Pp. 71. ISBN 1-872424-93-7
Philip G. Hadlock, Texas Christian University
As any reader of Western literature can attest, war has proven to be a fertile terrain for the literary imagination. In his new book, Michael Weatherilt assays Maupassant's place among the countless authors who have cultivated this field by assigning prominence to warfare in their works. Linking Maupassant to a continuum which stretches from Homer to Hemingway, Weatherilt devotes the introduction of his study to a rumination on war's relationship to literature. His conclusions in this opening section reflect the methodology that he will employ in ...