Pierre et Jean

A masterful example of the psychological novel in French literature, this edition has been designed to help the English-speaking student approach the original French through the use of a thorough and informative introduction, ample and informative notes and study questions, all of which are contained in one convenient volume. Pierre et Jean is a naturalist work written by Guy de Maupassant in 1887. It tells the story of a middle-class French family whose lives are changed when a deceased family friend, leaves his inheritance to Jean. This provokes Pierre to doubt the fidelity of his mother and the legitimacy of his brother. The Focus Student Editions are appropriate as introductory texts for French language courses in literature and culture. 

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Guy de Maupassant
Edited by Myrna Rochester and Eileen Angelini

2007 - 258 pp.
Imprint: Focus, Series: Focus Student Editions

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A masterful example of the psychological novel in French literature, this edition has been designed to help the English-speaking student approach the original French through the use of a thorough and informative introduction, ample and informative notes and study questions, all of which are contained in one convenient volume.

Pierre et Jean is a naturalist work written by Guy de Maupassant in 1887. It tells the story of a middle-class French family whose lives are changed when a deceased family friend, leaves his inheritance to Jean. This provokes Pierre to doubt the fidelity of his mother and the legitimacy of his brother. 

The Focus Student Editions are appropriate as introductory texts for French language courses in literature and culture. 

 

Contents:

Introduction, Notes stylistiques, Chronologie, La vie maritime: Vocabularie et exercices, Le Roman: essai de Guy de Maupassant, Carte de la côte Normandie, Pierre et Jean

 

About the Authors:

Eileen M. Angelini received her B.A. in French from Middlebury College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in French Studies from Brown University. She is Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Canisius College. Dr. Angelini has won research grants from the U.S., French, and Canadian governments. She is a frequent presenter at national and regional conferences and the author of publications on literary analysis, and on pedagogy, focusing on the professions and cross-cultural communication. Dr. Angelini is a Question Leader for the AP French Language Examination and a College Board Consultant. Dr. Angelini was awarded the 2008 AATF Dorothy Ludwig National Award for Outstanding Teacher of the Year. 

Myrna Bell Rochester (A.B. Romance Languages, University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D. French, U.C.L.A.) also studied at the Université de Genève. Her book on Surrealist poet and novelist René Crevel was published in Stanford French and Italian Studies (René Crevel: Le Pays des miroirs absolus). Dr. Rochester taught at U.C.L.A., Menlo College, and Stanford. She is a free-lance book editor and the author of college texts: Rendez-vous, Entrée en scène, Bonjour, ça va? and Vis-à-vis, as well as a trade text, Easy French Step-by-Step). 

Dr. Rochester is the co-editor of the French literary classics series for Focus Publishing: Camara Laye's L'Enfant noir, Molière's L'École des femmes, Maupassant's Pierre et Jean, Voltaire's Candide, and Corneille's Le Cid. Her criticism includes studies of Simone de Beauvoir, Béatrix Beck, Dominique Desanti, and other women writers of the World War II era. She contributed English translations to Surrealist Women: An International Anthology (ed. Penelope Rosemont) and to the award-winning Black, Brown and Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora (eds. Franklin Rosemont and Robin D. G. Kelley). Dr. Rochester contributes to the UK-based online Literary Encyclopedia.