In the translation of the outstanding Ukrainian writer, translator and one of the most outstanding novelists of the era of the Shot Revival Valerian Pidmohylny
Foreword by Olena Pisarevska, Ph.D., translator and teacher of French at the University of Poitiers (France) and the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
The scandalous story of a young man seduced by the charms of power
Georges Durois is an attractive and ambitious young man who wants fame and money more than anything in the world. His work as a journalist at La Vie française and his talent for charming women quickly made him part of the upper world. Among vile colleagues, manipulative mistresses and cunning rich people, Durois turns into a seducer and blackmailer, a lover and a careerist, an adventurer and a beloved friend. For the sake of his love, women are capable of anything, and for the sake of fame Durois is capable even of love.
Guy de Maupassant's novel "Dear Friend" is full of cynicism and at the same time pure joy of life in aristocratic and sensitive Paris. And the image of a dear friend of Georges Durois became a world symbol of unprincipledness.
