Ergebnis für "Guy De Maupassant" in Psychothriller

Narra los síntomas y miedos del personaje principal cuando empieza a sentir la presencia de un ser invisible, llamado el Horla, que lo rodea y lo controla. Cada noche, mientras duerme, esta presencia lo invade y bebe su vida.

Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant, Kate Chopin. These three names thrill the literary world as well as our own. They have gravitas, they have knowledge, experience and they have the literary style and panache to seduce our imagined world. Each has written a short story on pleasured lips placed on another’s flesh. For Chekhov it was a kiss in a darkened room that happened by mistake. Who was she? For Chopin it was a kiss that almost derailed a hoped-for marriage proposal. Why did he do that? For de Maupassant it was a niece seeking advice from her Aunt on when to kiss and whom. And did she?

Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives. Indeed their lives, in their own eyes, become almost meaningless, their sense of themselves subsumed under a myriad of problems, whether real or imagined. Seismic events in a life might crush them; the loss of a loved one for instance. Coping is difficult, support hard to find and isolation abounds.

Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is of the best "macabre" tales ever written. It is presented here in its entirety along with eight other incredible tales.

"Amo la noche con pasión. La amo como uno ama a su país o a su amante, con un amor instintivo, profundo, invencible...". Así comienza Maupassant su agitado paseo nocturno por los bulevares de París, que Toño Benavides iluminará para seguir al protagonista sin nombre de este fantástico relato, uno de los mejores de su autor.