Dr Helen Chambers, an Honorary Research Fellow and former PhD student in the Department of English & Creative writing has collaborated on a new collection of stories by Guy de Maupassant: Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories (Riverrun Editions, 2020). Dr Helen Chambers was jointly involved in selecting texts and is co-author of the preface with Professor Robert Hampson.
This new collection exemplifies Maupassant’s direct treatment of sex and sexuality, and his insistence that the artist’s primary duty was faithfulness to his own perceptions. The sensitive translations of the stories by Ada Galsworthy and Elsie Martindale Hueffer show why writers like Conrad and Ford Madox Ford revered Maupassant’s work.
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