Labels:bulletin board | reckoner | sky | stairs | stairway OCR: Maupassant Guy de:(1 850 1893) Popular French short starv writer and novelist While he wAs stationed ir Paris during the Franco- -Prussian War, he came under the tute- lage of Flaubert and also met Zola. In the 1870s and 1880s mani of his stories were serialized in periodicals. The typi cal Maupassant tale takes place on Norman farm or ina small rural village Ubiquitous element: ir his fiction in clude mystery, hallucinat tion and horror before the specter of death Fort lamorte (1889) is about an aging man whose existence is disrupted love for younger woman Var Gogh read and admired this novel and others the story many elements lude hallucination come morte