The Foreign Soul & The Angelus

The Foreign Soul & The AngelusIn The Foreign Soul we are in classic Maupassant territory. Robert Mariolle, a wealthy Parisian bachelor, has just arrived in the fashionable spa town of Aix les Bains determined to enjoy himself at the casino in the company of high society, attempting to get over his break up with mistress, Henriette Lambel. The Angelus was intended to be Maupassants great masterpiece, an ambitious inverted allegory of Christianity into which the author would pour

In The Foreign Soul we are in classic Maupassant territory. Robert Mariolle, a wealthy Parisian bachelor, has just arrived in the fashionable spa town of Aix-les-Bains determined to enjoy himself at the casino in the company of high society, attempting to get over his break up with mistress, Henriette Lambel. The Angelus was intended to be MaupassantÕs great masterpiece, an ambitious inverted allegory of Christianity into which the author would pour his growing pessimism and despair. Set during the Franco-Prussian War, as were some of MaupassantÕs finest short stories, The Angelus finds the pregnant Countess de BrŽmontal alone in her ch‰teau as Prussian troops move into the neighbourhood. Here are the first English translations of MaupassantÕs two unfinished novels, The Foreign Soul [LÕAme Žtrang�re] and The Angelus [LÕAngŽlus], together with full critical apparatus, including secondary sources outlining MaupassantÕs future plot ideas and an essay on The Foreign Soul by Paul Bourget.