Опыт любви

V etot sbornik voshli novelly Mopassana, predstavlyayushchie nastoyashchuyu entsiklopediyu byta i nravov Frantsii posledney chetverti XIX veka. Frantsii trudolyubivykh i khitrykh krestyan, bogatykh i zazhitochnykh burzhua, chinovnikov, bolee vsego ozabochennykh vechnym voprosom "CHto skazhut sosedi?", veselykh krasavits, lovko izmenyayushchikh muzhyam i lyubovnikam, khvatkikh "nochnykh babochek" i tantsovshchits, odinokikh starikov, do kotorykh nikomu net dela, detey, tolko otkryvayushchikh dlya sebya ogromnyy mir, schastlivykh i neschastnykh semey. I konechno zhe avtor ne mog proyti mimo temy lyubvi, neizmenno zanimayushchey vo frantsuzskoy literature znachitelnoe mesto.