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Excerpt from The Complete Works of Guy De Maupassant: The Window and Short Stories
These are characteristic traits in Maupassant, and while he shares some of them with other writers of the school, in no one of the more prominent are they so highly developed as in him. His great mas ter, the man who made Maupassant the literary art ist he is - Gustave Flaubert - is not invariably de pressing; Emile Zola, foul, bestial and materialistic though he customarily is, rises at times to cleaner heights and stirs other than base thoughts; Alphonse Daudet, with his infinite sadness, scarcely ever fails to let a beam of his Provence sunshine break through the shadow; but Maupassant is infiexibly and unchangingly the abhorrer of man.
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