《绳子的故事》是法国十九世纪后期批判现实主义大师莫泊桑的一篇短篇小说。莫泊桑的作品,常常通过选取日常生活中极其平凡、极其普通的事情,来揭示深刻的社会内容。他善于撷取滔天巨浪中的一朵小浪花,以小见大,一以当十,从滴水中窥见太阳的光芒。《绳子的故事》就是这样一类作品。在这篇不到六千来字的短篇中,展现在我们面前的,既不是金融界、商业界巨头之间的互相倾轧,也没有轰轰烈烈、波澜壮阔的历史场面,而只是通过描述法国北方诺曼地区一个诚实的农民,在赶集的路上捡了一条绳子,因而被冤家诬告,又受到众人奚落,以致忧郁而死的故事,深刻地揭示了十九世纪后期法国社会的一个极其重大的问题,即社会道德问题。《绳子的故事》发表于1883年。十九世纪 “The Story of Rope” is a short story by Francesco Maupassant, the critical realist of the late nineteenth century. Maupassant’s work, often through the selection of everyday life is extremely ordinary, extremely common things, to reveal the profound social content. He is adept at capturing a small wave in a monstrous wave to see the big one and the tenth as a glimpse of the sun’s rays from the dripping water. “The story of the rope” is such a type of work. In this short story of less than half a dozen words, it is not only the mutual strife between the financial and commercial giants, nor the vigorous and magnificent historical scenes that are presented to us, but only through the description of Norman An honest peasant in the area who picked up a rope on the road to market and thus was falsely accused by his friends and ridiculed by the people and dulled his death profoundly revealed an extremely important issue in the French society in the late nineteenth century. Social moral issues. The Story of Rope was published in 1883. Nineteenth century