Sunday Walks of a Parisian Bourgeois

2 hrs. 17 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Guy de Maupassant

Narrator Vladimir Palyanitsa

Description

With hidden irony, the author portrays a typical everyday man—Paris-born Monsieur Patisso—who rants about politics and tries to declare some “principles.” He has always led a sedentary life, and at the age of 52, after feeling suddenly dizzy, he receives advice from a doctor to move more. One of his friends recommends boxing, but on the very first day Monsieur Patisso gets punched in the nose. Gymnastics gives him shortness of breath, fencing aches his lower back—until it dawns on him: on weekends, he’ll walk around the outskirts of Paris…

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