The Oxford Book of French Short Stories

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.

ISBN 0192880373   Pages 376 ISBN13 9780192880376 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 493 Imprint Oxford Paperbacks   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Series title Oxford Books of Publication date 25 Apr 2002   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress 2002510698   Width (mm) 138 DEWEY 843.0108   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

		Introduction
		The Husband Who Said Mass by Marquis de Sade		1
		Vanina Vanini by Stendhal		7
		The Coffee Pot by Theophile Gautier		30
		The Message by Honore de Balzac		37
		The Venus of Ille by Prosper Merimee		49
		Story of a Madman by Emile Zola		74
		The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet		78
		A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert		83
		The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant		111
		At Sea		119
		Gloomy Tale, Gloomier Teller by Villiers de L'Isle-Adam		124
		Knapsack at the Ready by Joris-Karl Huysmans		131
		The Lady with the She-Wolf by Renee Vivien		156
		The Walking Stick by Marcel Ayme		163
		Gribiche by Colette		177
		The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre		205
		The Man on the Street by Georges Simenon		221
		An Errand by Birago Diop		233
		The Guest by Albert Camus		237
		Monologue by Simone de Beauvoir		249
		The Lily of the Valley Lay-by by Michel Tournier		270
		Do You Remember the Rue d'Orchampt? by Christiane Baroche		295
		The Check-up by Herve Guibert		311
		There Is No Exile by Assia Djebar		315
		The Negro with the White Shadow by Rene Depestre		326
		The Underwear of the Woman Up Above by Frederic Fajardie		333
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