tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post1866389900750046979..comments2024-03-29T04:12:48.987+08:00Comments on The Reading Life: "Idylle" by Guy de Maupassant-I need Some Help on this story!Mel uhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post-50094913754467248652019-03-05T08:55:53.855+08:002019-03-05T08:55:53.855+08:00We read this story at school in Ireland in the lat...We read this story at school in Ireland in the late 1970s, therefore I am going to have to assume the clergy (went to private non-denominational school)<br />or my English teacher thought it appropriate for young teens 😳Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07375101867974813718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post-48488590295794432572016-06-09T02:03:57.513+08:002016-06-09T02:03:57.513+08:00There has recently been a short film that adapts t...There has recently been a short film that adapts this story for today: https://www.nowness.com/series/nowness-shorts/the-Idyll-justin-anderson-dougray-scott-emma-de-caunes<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post-13648816023829220952011-06-09T04:35:36.874+08:002011-06-09T04:35:36.874+08:00I would also need help understanding or interpreti...I would also need help understanding or interpreting this story!Sukohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11893742747135555499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post-51915143327580908552011-06-08T19:43:45.524+08:002011-06-08T19:43:45.524+08:00Risa-de Maupassant did have attitudes toward women...Risa-de Maupassant did have attitudes toward women that are not acceptable now, for sure-it is a story to make us think-Mel uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post-82647770479544750602011-06-08T13:55:26.165+08:002011-06-08T13:55:26.165+08:00I've only ever read The Necklace by Maupassant...I've only ever read The Necklace by Maupassant, and another story that I cannot recall. I hadn't realised he wrote stories that were so sexually explicit! <br /><br />I honestly didn't know what to think about what you'd written in your post on the story - except that I couldn't help cringing. <br /><br />Amateur Reader's comment sounds like a good one...or maybe Maupassant was a bit of a creep? Either way I'm not really qualified to say anything as I haven't read more than one or two of his works...Songhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09707280327803432082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post-55542887356550902032011-06-08T12:06:44.456+08:002011-06-08T12:06:44.456+08:00Amateur Reader-yes I sense de Maupassant equated f...Amateur Reader-yes I sense de Maupassant equated food and sex somehow -some of the prostitutes in his stories are described as being very corpulent and their body parts are described with food metaphors. thanks as always for your comments and I hope you had a nice few days on the PrairieMel uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post-24714160055179695282011-06-08T11:58:39.818+08:002011-06-08T11:58:39.818+08:00Your discovery of the use of this story by fetishi...Your discovery of the use of this story by fetishists is <i>hilarious</i>. I'll take your word about that website!<br /><br />I think you've got it - the final action is both a symbolic protest or statement about lack of sympathy for the poor and downtrodden, O'Connor's marginalized people (note the similarity with the use of food in <i>Boule de Suif</i>) and a piece of clever smut. The reader can feel both titillated and smart. And maybe virtuous and sophisticated, too.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.com