IDENTITY
Des vers
Literature
Work Summary
Maupassant's early poetry collection, bringing together verse on love, sensuality, nature, memory, melancholy and everyday experience. The poems reveal the literary work that preceded and accompanied his better-known career as a writer of fiction.
Evidence Summary
He immediately gives a strong comparative judgement of Maupassant beside Zola.
Direct literary evaluation; no painting influence is inferred.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Guy de Maupassant
Work
Des vers
Years / Period
15–16 Jun 1888
Van Gogh Relation
Read, Discussed / Commented On
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
15–16 Jun 1888 — Letter 625
Read · Read / evaluated
Van Gogh says he has just read Maupassant's first book, Des vers, poems dedicated to Flaubert.
Response: He immediately gives a strong comparative judgement of Maupassant beside Zola.
Connection: Direct literary evaluation; no painting influence is inferred.
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Themes
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