Secondhand – The Madness of the Fantastic News, Guy de Maupassant

GUY DE MAUPASSANT Madness in fantastic short stories > Him?

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NEW PROGRAM > The Night > The Hair An strange, bewitching head of hair, furniture that moves on its own in front of the master of the house, an obsessive hallucination, and the deep night where one risks getting lost because "what one loves with violence always ends up killing you": four unsettling short stories by Maupassant where fantasy and madness blur reality.

NEW 4th → Fiction to question reality PROGRAM A lively approach ⚫ A fictional interview with Maupassant The context and historical milestones • A lively presentation of the characters Comprehensive tools • Two axes of analysis:

- A genre: The fantastic short story - A theme: Madness through the ages • Reading breaks to analyze key passages Vocabulary exercises and writing assignments Additional readings • The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe Apparition, by Guy de Maupassant Image analysis A full-color iconographic dossier opening onto the history of the arts