RAM, my favorite Dutch TV program on the arts has a new format and a new presenter, the writer Arnon Grunberg. He has given us homework to prepare for for next week's program:
Read Guy de Maupassants' story "Voyage de noce", and try to figure out for youself how long happiness lasted. One month, or more? Less? Explain.
"Quand je rentrai dans Marseille après ce mois passé dans le bleu, une inexplicable tristesse m'envahit. Je sentais vaguement que c'était fini ; que j'avais fait le tour du bonheur."
maupassant_contes_divers_1882.pdf (application/pdf Object)