He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of
attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all
women yielded to it.Though firmly set in 1880s Paris,
Maupassant's gripping story of an amoral journalist on the make could,
with only slight modifications of detail, be updated to the 1960s, to
the Reagan-Thatcher years, or maybe to the present day. Anti-hero
Georges Duroy is a down-at-heel ex-soldier of no particular talent.
Good-looking but somewhat lacking in self-confidence, he discovers an
ability to control and exploit women - whereupon his career in
journalism takes off, fuelled by the corruption of colleagues and
government arrivistes. He may be a provincial Don Juan, but he is
neither accident-prone nor heading for a fall...A Hollywood screen adaptation is in preparation at the time of recording. (Summary by Martin Geeson.)

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