Bel-Ami From the Page to Film—Notes on the First Transposition of Maupassant’s Novel to the Screen

The following essay aims to critically discuss the first transposition of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Bel-Ami to the screen by Austrian film director Willi Forst at the end of the 1930s.Forst’s film preceded by a decade Hollywood’s version The Private Affairs of Bel Ami,of 1947,with George Sanders as Bel-Ami,while Maupassant’s novel was first brought to the screen in France by Louis Daquin in the 1950s.Yet Forst’s film has been paid but scarce attention in scholarly studies on the cinematic adaptations of Maupassant’s work.In discussing Forst’s film,the present essay will specifically examine Forst’s work in its relation to Maupassant’s novel.In particular,attention will be focused on the metamorphosis of the character of Bel-Ami on the screen in comparison to the novel,and Forst’s film shall simultaneously be analyzed in the context of Forst’s oeuvre.By drawing attention to the first film to be adapted from Maupassant’s world-famous novel,this essay aims to fill a gap in scholarly literature on the relationship between the French novelist and cinema.

舆论、谣言与毁灭——莫泊桑短篇小说《绳子的故事》的传播学解读

《绳子的故事》是莫泊桑的一个短篇小说。然而,从传播学的角度来解读,故事中却蕴涵着人类信息传播交流的规律和精髓。莫泊桑以艺术的形式展示了谣言的产生、发展、流传、流变的全过程,揭示了谣言滋生、流播和流变的社会和心理原因,揭露了谣言对于社会和个人的极大杀伤力;还颇具匠心地以巧妙的结构安排,来呼唤和警策人们建立良好的人文环境,建立正常、畅通的信息传播渠道,发挥正面舆论的作用,以此清除谣言滋生的土壤,消除谣言。