The Oxford Book of French Short Stories

by Elizabeth Fallaize (Editor)

Overview

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 rumbustious 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 Renee 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 exciting reading.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191614927
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	03/18/2010
Series:	Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Fallaize is Fellow of French at St. John's College, Oxford, and editor of Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader (Routledge, 1998), French Women's Writing: Recent Fiction (Macmillan, 1993), and French Fiction in the Mitterand Years. She is a co-editor of the journal French Studies.

Table of Contents

IntroductionThe husband who said mass, Marquis de SadeVanina Vanini, StendhalThe coffee pot, Theophile GautierThe message, Honore de BalzacThe Venus of Ille, Prosper MerimeeStory of a Madman, Emile ZolaThe last lesson, Leon DaudetA Simple Heart, Gustave FlaubertThe Necklace, Guy de MaupassantAt Sea, Guy de MaupassantGloomy Tale, Gloomier Teller, Villiers de l'Isle-AdamKnapsack at the ready, Joris-Karl HuysmansThe Lady with the She-Wolf, Renee VivienThe Walking Stick, Marcel AymeGribiche, Sidonie-Gabrielle ColetteThe Wall, Jean-Paul SartreThe man in the street, Georges SimenonAn Errand, Birago DiopThe Guest, Albert CamusMonologue, Simone de BeauvoirThe Lily of the Valley Lay-by, Michel TournierDo you remember the rue d'Orchampt?, Christiane BarocheThe checkup, Herve GuibertThere is No Exile, Assia DjebarThe Negro with the White Shadow, Rene DepestreThe Underwear of the Woman Up Above, Frederic FajardieThe Finest Stroy in the World, Annie SaumontPublic Transit, Monique Proulx