Strong as Death

Guy de Maupassant

Strong as Death by Guy de Maupassant follows Olivier Bertin, a celebrated and fashionable painter whose success has brought him wealth and honors but has left him uneasy about his creative powers. Working in a sunlit Paris studio, he struggles to find a new subject and keeps measuring himself against his own past achievements. The opening chapters, titled "A Duel of Hearts" and "Twin Roses from a Single Stem," suggest that his restlessness will soon be stirred by love and rivalry. (This is an automatically generated summary.)