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The influences behind Conan the Barbarian

28 works across 28 centuries, back to The Iliad and Poems of Alcaeus.

Following one thread, 4 works from Conan the Barbarian to Boule de Suif. Back to all 28 works

  1. Cover of Boule de Suif

    1880

    Boule de Suif

    Guy de Maupassant

    French Naturalism. France. Written in French.

    Respectable travelers in a coach during the Franco-Prussian War exploit and then shun a prostitute traveling with them.

    What it handed down

    To Stagecoach (1939)

    Thematic kinship, probable.

    Ford and Nichols acknowledged Maupassant's story as a model for the characters. The respectable passengers who scorn a prostitute in the coach became the townspeople who shun Dallas.

    Where it came from

    The line stops here: maupassant's debts to Flaubert are not followed here.

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