French Short Stories 2: Parallel Text
These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied by a parallel English text, making them valuable for both French and English language students. Among the diverse and entertaining stories in the collection...
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These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied by a parallel English text, making them valuable for both French and English language students. Among the diverse and entertaining stories in the collection are the wistful masterpiece "Green Tobacco" by Clair Sainte-Soline; the exuberant tale of "The Ants" by the post-war king of cafe society, Boris Vian, and a suspense in the nineteenth-century erotic tradition from Andre de Mandiargues.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140034141 (0140034145)
Publish date: February 1st 1993
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Series: French Short Stories (#2)
A really wide-ranging collection of French short stories in translation from the mid- to late-nineteenth century showing the shift from mid-century naturalism and realism to fin-de-siecle experiments with narrative form, aesthetics, and the movement toward modernism. Most editions I've seen listed l...
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