The Penguin Book of French Short Stories. Volume 1. From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust

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Описание The Penguin Book of French Short Stories. Volume 1. From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust

A major new celebration of the French short story
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 decadent tales, '
bloody tales'
, fairy tales, detective stories and war stories. They are stories about the self and the other, husbands, wives and lovers, country and city, rich and poor.
The first volume spans four hundred years, taking the reader from the sixteenth century to the '
golden age'
of the fin de siecle. Its pages are populated by lovers, phantoms, cardinals, labourers, enchanted statues, gentleman burglars, retired bureaucrats, panthers and parrots, in a cacophony of styles and voices. From the affairs of Madame de Lafayette to the polemic realism of Victor Hugo, the supernatural mystery of Guy de Maupassant to the dark sensuality of Rachilde, this is the place to start for lovers of French literature, new and old.
Edited and with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness, academic, writer and translator.

Содержание The Penguin Book of French Short Stories. Volume 1. From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust

Introduction
PHILIPPE DE LAON
The Husband as Doctor
MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE
The Substitute
FRANCOIS DE ROSSET
The True Story of a Woman Who Killed Her Husband
and Subsequently Performed Unheard-of Acts of
Violence on His Body
JEAN -PIERRE CAMUS
The Phantom
CHARLES PERRAULT
Bluebeard
MADAME DE LAFAYETTE
La Comtesse de Tende
VOLTAIRE
Micromegas
DENIS DIDEROT
This Is Not a Story
MARQUIS DE SADE
Augustine de Villeblanche
ISABELLE DE CHARRIERE
The Nobleman
VIVANT DENON
No Tomorrow
CHARLES NODIER
Jean-Francois les Bas-bleus
STENDHAL
Vanina Vanini
MARCELINE DES BORDES - VALMORE
The Unknown Woman
HONORE DE BALZAC
A Passion in the Desert
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
A Dead Mans Story Told by Himself
VICTOR HUGO
Claude Gueux
PROSPER MERIMEE
The Venus of Tile
ALOYSIUS BERTRAND
Scarbo
JULES BARBEY D'
AUREVILLY
Don Juans Crowning Love Affair
XAVIER FORNERET
A Dream
THOPHILE GAUTIER
The Mummy'
s Foot
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
A Simple Heart
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Knock Down the Poor!
JULES VERNE
A Drama in the Air
VILLIERS DE L'
ISLE-ADAM
Vera
EMILE ZOLA
Death by Advertising
STEPHANE MALLARME
The Pipe
CHARLES CROS
The Cabinet
JULES RENARD
The Image-Hunter
JORIS - KARL HUYSMANS
Monsieur Bougrans Retirement
OCTAVE MIRBEAU
On a Cure
JEAN RICHEPIN
Constant Guignard
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
The Horla
GEORGES RODENBACH
The Time
JEAN LORRAIN
The Man Who Loved Consumptives
RACHILDE
The Panther
FELIX FENEON
Three-line novellas
JULES LAFORGUE
Apropos of Hamlet
LEON DAUDET
The Exhibition of Tears
MARCEL SCHWOB
The Sans-Gueules
MAURICE LEBLANC
Arsene Lupins Arrest
MARCEL PROUST
The Mysterious Correspondent
Notes
Author Biographies Acknowledgements

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