The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 8

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The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 8 by Guy de Maupassant

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Pierre et Jean. -- Dreams -- Moonlight -- The Corsican Bandit -- A Dead Woman's Secret -- The Cake -- A Lively Friend -- The Orphan -- The Blind Man -- A Wife's Confession -- Relics of the Past -- The Peddler -- The Avenger -- All Over -- Letter Found on a Drowned Man -- Mother and Son -- The Spasm -- A Duel -- The Love of Long Ago -- An Uncomfortable Bed -- A Warning Note -- The Horrible -- A New Year's Gift -- Beside a Dead Man -- After -- A Queer Night in Paris -- Boitelle

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nalysis require the writer to devote himself to indicating the smallest evolutions of a soul, and all the most secret motives of our every action, giving but a quite secondary importance to the act and fact in itself. It is but the goal, a simple milestone, the excuse for the book. According to them, these works, at once exact and visionary, in which imagination merges into observation, are to be written after the fashion in which a philosopher composes a treatise on psychology, seeking out causes in their remotest origin, telling the why and wherefore of every impulse, and detecting every reaction of the soul's movements under the promptings of interest, passion, or instinct.

The partisans of objectivity--odious word--aiming, on the contrary, at giving us an exact presentment of all that happens in life, carefully avoid all complicated explanations, all disquisitions on motive, and confine themselves to let persons and events pass before our eyes. In their opinion, psychology should be concealed in th

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