The Tramp...and other selected stories

In the collection of short stories in our hands, Maupassant tends to investigate the truth of major ideas that have always disturbed people, the truth of love and betrayal, hope and loyalty, the relationship with the homeland and the land, and the feeling of pessimism as a result of the disappointment that his heroes suffer. It can be said that Maupassant does not belong to the group of optimistic writers who offer the reader imaginary promises, but at the same time he describes the world around him with such precision that the discerning reader can find hope in the smallest things, in his description of nature, and in his preference for pure human relationships and his search for them with clear diligence. .
In these stories, Maupassant also seeks to trace beauty, in everything around him, in nature and people, in the countryside and the city, and in his reflections on the contradictory human situations that reveal everything that is going on inside people's souls. His heroes, women and men, are vagabonds, strangers, and nobles, whose existence intersects in The same axis of the question about the self and the deeper ego in all its manifestations and its relationship with the world.