Fictional hacks " from Maupassant to Larsson
Journalists have been glamorous social climbers and bumbling fools in fiction " sometimes they've even been feminists and righters of wrongsJournalism is a glamorous trade in Guy de Maupassant's Bel Ami, as Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod's film adaptation (released in the US next week and in the UK a week later) underlines by casting Robert Pattinson as Georges Duroy and Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christin…