Naqd-i Zabān va Adabīyyāt-i Khārijī (Dec 2013)
گی دو موپاسان و دانش پزشکی
Abstract
Guy de Maupassant is one of the greatest writers of France in the 19th century. He wrote more than three hundred short stories and is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story. In addition to beautiful descriptions, he has pointed to diseases and their effects on different people. Many of the short stories describe apparently supernatural phenomena. The supernatural in Maupassant, however, is often implicitly a symptom of the protagonists' troubled minds. Through this article, the physical diseases and mental disorders of the characters of some of his short stories, and the effect of these diseases on the person and society are studied. The study of such stories may be a step toward better understanding of style and the craft of this writer.
