"Racconti di sogno nelle novelle di Maupassant"

Dreams are very frequent in Maupassant’s short stories, both in his fantastic and naturalistic output. We will see how dreams in Maupassant perfectly reflect the various nineteenth-century conceptions of this phenomenon in France and its growing impact in literature. Dreams gradually lose their simple instrumental or allegorical role to become a means of representing characters’ psychology and motivating their behavior.