guy de maupassant

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Multiplicity
1. A large number or great variety
2. The state of being multiple

Complicity
1. The fact or condition of being an accomplice, esp in a criminal act

multi.com.plicity is a twenty-first century translation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Mes vingt-cinq jours (My Twenty-Five Days), originally published in 1885, and translated into English by Albert M.C. McMaster, A.E. Henderson, Mme. Quesada et al.

multi.com.plicity takes de Maupassant's story and reimagines it, changing a health resort in 19th century France to a laboratory complex in an unspecified future, and inhabiting the story with nameless clones and technology. In this way the story eschews the notion of a literal translation in favour of a temporal and situational carrying across of de Maupassant's tale, with multiple layers of perception as realised through randomised image and video layers.

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A digital fiction that reimagines Guy de Maupassant's 1885 short story Mes vingt-cinq jours (My Twenty-Five Days) as a futuristic technological resort for clones.

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