Guy de Maupassant was and remains one of the most widely read and beloved French authors. Many generations of readers have discovered the world of forbidden eroticism thanks to his works. "Dear friend", where the story of the career of an ordinary seducer and life burner Georges Duroy, developing in the spirit of an adventurous novel, became a symbolic reflection of the spiritual impoverishment of the hero and society. The enduring relevance of the novel is best evidenced by the interest of cinema: there are at least one and a half dozen of its adaptations. The novel "Life", which L. N. Tolstoy praised as "almost the best French novel since Hugo's Les Misérables", talks about the lost illusions. An example of unsurpassed psychologism and literary skill are Maupassant's numerous novels, beginning with the famous "Push". The writer’s work is characterized by strict internal artistic logic, conciseness, accuracy and clarity of the “genuinely French language” (A.). France).