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The Oxford Book of French Short Stories

By Elizabeth Fallaize

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0192880373, 9780192880376
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
36 MB (37294548 bytes)
Series
Oxford Books of
Pages
376\375
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-10-04 21:22:27
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Description

This collection of French short stories in translation expands our idea of French writing by including new stories by women writers and by authors of Francophone origin. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, the collection opens with a rambunctious tale from the Marquis de Sade, takes in the masters of the nineteenth century, from Stendhal and Balzac to Maupassant, and reaches to Quebec, Africa, and the French Caribbean in the twentieth century. Women writers include relatively well-known figures such as Renée Vivien, Colette, and Beauvoir, and newer writers such as Assia Djebar, Christiane Baroche, and Annie Saumont. The French short story is a rich and diverse medium, but all the stories selected share a common characteristic: they make reading exciting.

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