About the book: 1999 / In the novel "Pierre and Jean" the eldest son of the Roland family gradually, step by step, begins to see through the long-standing family drama - his mother's betrayal - hidden behind the decent façade of everyday life. The novel is written in the best traditions of the French family novel and is distinguished by its acute social analysis. Maupassant contrasts the truth of man’s natural feelings with the spiritual squalor and greed of the bourgeois owner..