'His "story" engrosses the non-critical, it holds the critical too at the first reading...That is the real test of art, and it is because of the inobtrusiveness of this workmanship, that for once the critic and the reader may join hands without awaiting the verdict of posterity' From the introduction by Ford Madox Ford Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге de Maupassant Stories (Guy de Maupassant)