Hallucinations and pathological visual perceptions in Maupassant's fantastical short stories--a neurological approach.
Journal of the history of the neurosciences June 1, 2005 Luis-Carlos Alvaro
Maupassant excelled as a realist writer of the nineteenth century, with fantastical short stories being an outstanding example of his literary genius. We have analysed four of his fantastical stories from a neurological point of view. In "Le Horla," his masterpiece, we have found nightmares, sleep paralysis, a hemianopic pattern of loss and recovery of vision, and palinopsia. In "Qui sait" and...