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PENGUIN BOOK OF FRENCH SHORT STORIES Volume 2  From Colwttw to Marine Ndiaye 

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 - USA  Allen Lane  2022 
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<br/><br/> <br/><br/>A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022<br/><br/>'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent<br/><br/>'There is so much to discover in these stories - both history and food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times<br/><br/>A major new celebration of the French short story across the twentieth century<br/><br/>The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. Here are fables, puzzles, fairy tales, war stories and family histories, testing and expanding the boundaries of the form. They are stories about the self and the other, the centre and the periphery, experimental and existential, real and surreal.<br/><br/>The second volume takes the reader through the tumultuous twentieth century in the company of writers including Simone de Beauvoir and Maryse Condé, Patrick Modiano and Virginie Despentes, covering world wars, revolutions, and the horrors of the motorway service station. Along the way we meet electronic brains, she-wolves, a sadistic Cinderella, ancestors, infidels, dissatisfied housewives and lonely ambassadors, all clamouring to be heard. Funny, devastating and fresh at every turn, this is the place to start for lovers of French literature, new and old.<br/><br/>Edited and with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness, academic, writer and translator.<br/> 
<br/><br/>Introduction<br/>Green Sealing Wax / Colette<br/>Woman of the Wolf / Renée Vivien<br/>The Grass Snake / Charles-Albert Cingria<br/>The Disappearance of Honoré Subrac / Guillaume Apollinaire<br/>The Upright Piano / Jean de La Ville de Mirmont<br/>Cinderella, the Humble and Haughty Child / Claude Cahun<br/>What I Saw / Emmanuel Bove<br/>The Man Who Walked Through Walls / Marcel Aymé<br/>A Tale for Your Shaping / Raymond Queneau<br/>The Man Who Loved Nereids / Marguerite Yourcenar<br/>Sunday / Irène Nemirovsky<br/>Sarzan / Birago Diop<br/>A Nail, a Rose / Madeleine Bourdouxhe<br/>The Madness of the Day / Maurice Blanchot<br/>Monologue / Simone de Beauvoir<br/>The Sow / Thomas Owen<br/>The Offensive / Henri Thomas<br/>The Boa / Marguerite Duras<br/>The Adam Affair / Béatrix Beck<br/>Danger from the Classics / Boris Vian<br/>The Hunters' Café / Daniel Boulanger<br/>The Execution / Jacques Sternberg<br/>Mahmoud Fall / Ousmane Sembène<br/>The Finest Story in the World / Annie Saumont<br/>Eve / Jacqueline Harpman<br/>The Unknown Visitor / Françoise Sagan<br/>The Garden / Monique Wittig<br/>The Winter Joumey / Georges Perec<br/>There Is No Exile / Assia Djebar<br/>Family Portrait / Maryse Condé<br/>Women of Algiers, Women of Shame / Leïla Sebbar<br/>The Hat / Patrick Modiano<br/>The Voice / Boualem Sansal<br/>Youth, Suburb of Life / Didier Daeninckx<br/>Portrait Of Saxl / Gilles Ortlieb<br/>A Man's Secrets / Hervé Guibert<br/>The Melancholy Ambassador / Ananda Devi<br/>The Goldfish / Christian Garcin<br/>Looking Inwards on the Autobahn / Charles Dantzig<br/>Revelation / Marie Ndiaye<br/>Hairs on Me / Virginie Despentes 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780241462058 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Purchased  Prism Books, Kadavanthra 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fiction<br/>Short stories<br/>Short stories, French Translations into English
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>F  / PEN