BelAmi Author:Guy De Maupassant Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885), is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened 'Bel-Ami' by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-siecle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It expl... more »ores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism.(« less
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Enjoyed this book very much. The characters were very intense and the author did an excellent job of describing the locale and gave the readers an experience of being right there. Am looking forward to the screen version.