Maupassant : le sport contre la finitude
Maupassant: Sport against Finiteness

Maupassant: Sport against Finiteness

Summary/Abstract: The great biographies of Maupassant do not fail to notice, over the course of the writer’s life, the multiplicity of his sports activities. If we try to draw up an inventory of these activities, taking into account the best known as well as the occasional ones, we note that, for the most part, they correspond to extra-urban spaces, close to a mostly aquatic nature. Maupassant maintains an image of a wildlife-loving sportsman proud of his physical qualities, a position that distinguishes him from most writers of his time, opposed to that of the conventional artist, and which is also in tension with the work itself of writing as well as with the relentless development of the disease. Besides providing him an accurate and documented material for fiction, sport also appertains to a hygienist option and a conquest of freedom from a body in jubilation, even self-deification against nothingness.

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