Guy de Maupassant e a província do Pará: a prosa ficcional francesa no periódico paraense

Abstract

Henri René Guy de Maupassant, or simply Guy de Maupassant well-known and important French author, born in 1850 in the Normandy region, Northwest of France, and died in Paris City in 1893. At the age of 30, he entered in the journalist field through Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), He was hailed as the founder of Psychological Horror, as well distinguished as the father of the modern short story. Among the periodicals that published the productions signed by Maupassant, A Província do Pará (1874 -) deserves to be highlighted fot not only dedicate spaces for the author’s fictional production but also for share his critical articles. Political, commercial and newspaper, A Província still be, between interruptions and restarts, a page of enormous strength in Belém’s journalistic scene since the 19th century. The main goal of this work is to verify the short stories signed by Maupassant that was published by the journal between 1890 and 1900, in addition to verify other texts linked to the author’s name propagated in the Journal aforementioned