McGuinness, Patrick
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The Penguin book of French short stories. Volume 1 From Marguerite de Navarre to
£12.99The Penguin book of French short stories. Volume 1 From Marguerite de Navarre to
This first volume celebrates the rich tradition of the French short story. Spanning four centuries, it brims with decadent tales, ‘bloody tales’ and fairy tales, detective stories and war stories, the experimental and the existential. These are stories about the self and the other, the fantastic and the realist, the country and the city, the nation and the colony, told in an eclectic array of voices and styles.
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The Penguin book of French short stories. Volume 2 From Colette to Marie Ndiaye
£10.99The Penguin book of French short stories. Volume 2 From Colette to Marie Ndiaye
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. The second volume takes the reader through the tumultuous 20th century.
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