Maupassant's Eerie Visions & How They Influenced His Work

[@albigensiac3206]

WOW! I am 70 years old, and way back in the mid 1960's I took a French course in high School, because I was lazy. I figured it would be an easy credit, because I already spoke French, as did half of the class! But our teacher caught on early that we were really bored with conjugating French verbs. So she introduced famous French literature into the curriculum. "The first story we'll read" (I can still hear her clearly!) "was written by a young man, who was not at all interested in great dramas like kings and wars, but the small daily dramas of people who made mistakes, due to flaws in their own characters. So, you must read his story 'La Parure' and we will discuss it tomorrow." I read it and was hooked on his oeuvres, and Baudelaire, and Dumas... and the whole gang! Yet this is the first I hear about syphilis, or drug use, or hallucinations that Monsieur Maupassant suffered from. So, a huge thank you, for continuing my education, all these decades later!

[@literarylemon1268]

Wow! Thank you for the recommendation!

[@robertmoye7565]

I have read his collected (and translated) short stories twice. They are magnificent. I never know where he will take me. He was my first Bradbury.

[@deedeequast9148]

Excellent depiction. I wish the well-chosen, hauntingly beautiful artwork had been identified. It contributed greatly to the pathos of Maupassant's struggles.

[@ValzainLumivix]

I'm currently three-quarters of the way through finishing my complete perusal of Maupassant's short stories, and aspects of his personal life and struggles seep through them. I find Maupassant's cynical social stories the most intriguing.

[@chapatrap7564]

Great video, I'd never heard of Maupassant before

[@tomatelalalal]

Loved the video. Much admiration from this brazilian to you~

[@pattidean4109]

Your narration is flawless. Great video.

[@anonymike8280]

It's a computer-created voice. You can buy the program and have your text narrated by anything from a chirpy kid to a gravelly-voiced old cowboy to a Jamaican. If you use a public domain text and few public domain still pictures you can put together a video pronto-presto and start to monetize. The most viewed KZbin content creators have made in excess of one million dollars. Most make far lea, but they are many of make at least an adequate living off of their videos.

[@behemoth5344]

Thank you, and what a nice voice you have. If you haven't yet, please consider reading a Maupassant's story available on the public domain: I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one who would enjoy listening to it.

[@jopowers5006]

Nicely presented and quite interesting. I would like to see credit given for the artwork that’s used to illustrate the narrative.

[@steveneardley7541]

Ether and laughing gas can detach the soul from the body, at which time one can experience one's body as something other than oneself. One's identity at this time is one of pure consciousness. In this state of being, time becomes simultaneous or at least "disturbed," and experiences can double--so one's self-awareness is not in sync with action in the physical world. This can lead to a sense of one's own image living a life separate from oneself. This is an illusion, but if one chooses to experience it that way, one can. It is easy to write off Maupassant's strange awareness as an effect of syphilis, which certainly does effect the brain, and like Lyme disease (another spirochete) can cause hallucinations. However, his interest in drugs and in hypnotism shows that he was also seeking higher or at least alternate forms of consciousness.

[@intransit74]

Lovely work.

[@palchica]

Love your channel, your videos are so interesting 🤍

[@Clubsandwichchav]

Love your videos

[@wingedpearloyster]

fascinating

[@lynnschaeferle-zh4go]

Sounds like a tragedy. I am assuming that if he had lived long enough for psychiatric medications he wouldn’t have suffered so. He was like a drug taking rock star; but instead of syphilis, he would’ve had AIDES.

[@williamwoody7607]

Yikes dead at 43? He wrote so much.

[@059echo]

I read The Devil by Maupassant and i have to say he doesn't have an ounce of imagination needed to write stories. A sixth grader has much vivid imagination than this guy