In a story by this author, a man goes to simply clean out his drawers, but becomes depressed reading about his old letters and ends up shooting himself.
In a story by this author, a man goes to simply clean out his drawers, but becomes depressed reading about his old letters and ends up shooting himself. In another story by this man, the protagonist first meets the title thing after waving to a Brazilian boat. That story by this author ends with a man burning down his house to kill the title supernatural creature, but concludes "He is not dead... I suppose I must kill myself". In another of his stories, a church bell is rung over and over by a woman after she uses a dessert knife to stab the title character after he makes a speech mocking France. In that story by this author, the prostitute Rachel kills an effeminate German captain during the Franco-Prussian War. For 10 points, name this French author of "The Horla", "Mademoiselle Fifi", and "The Necklace".
In a story by this author, a man goes to simply clean out his drawers, but becomes depressed reading about his old letters and ends up shooting himself.
Guy de Maupassant [or Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant]