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Title: Un fou Title Record # 1733595
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Date: 1885-09-02
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: French
Note: Borderline genre, since it is a story of secret madness and strange murders. First appeared in Le Gaulois, 2 September 1885.
Synopsis: After the death of a respected elderly magistrate, a diary is found among his papers, revealing that he committed several random murders, just for the sake of seeing the blood.
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Translations
Year Language Title
1903Translated by an uncredited translator, appeared in an edition of the works of Maupassant published by M. Walter Dunne, 1903.
English The Diary of a Madman
1946 English The Madman
1955 English A Madman
1965Translated by Enrique de Obregón
Spanish El diario de un loco
1976Translated by Arnold Kellett
English The Diary of a Madman
1982Translated by Irina Mavrodin
Romanian Un nebun
1984Translated by an unknown hand
German
Verrückt?Verrueckt
2008Translated by Aníbal Fernandes.
Portuguese Um louco
2020Translated by Enrico De Luca.
Italian Lettera di un pazzo

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Qui sait ?: et autres histoires étranges 1981-00-00 Guy de Maupassant Union générale d'éditions (Les maîtres de l'étrange et de la peur) 2-264-00345-6   297
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Frank Sérac  
Le Horla: et autres récits fantastiques 2000-00-00 Guy de Maupassant Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Classique #840) 2-253-00539-8
F20.00?F: French frank
381
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll
Léon Spilliaert?Leon Spilliaert
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Petit musée des horreurs: Nouvelles fantastiques, cruelles et macabres 2008-08-00 ed. Nathalie Prince Robert Laffont (Bouquins) 978-2-221-11014-0
€30.00?€: Euro
xxvii+
1104
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Steve Beck Checkmark
Le Horla: et autres récits fantastiques?Le Horla: et autres recits fantastiques
2011-08-00 Guy de Maupassant Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Classiques #840) 978-2-253-00539-1
€3.00?€: Euro
381
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Francesco Oller y Cestero  
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