The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1: From Marguerite de Navarre to Marcel Proust - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0241461995 ISBN 13: 9780241461990

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2022

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The Penguin Book of French Short Stories 1, 9780241461990

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Patrick McGuinness is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Anne's College. Born in Tunisia and raised in Belgium, he is a poet, novelist and translator. His novel The Last Hundred Days was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award, and his second novel, Throw me to the Wolves, won the 2020 Encore Award. His other books include three collections of poems, The Canals of Mars (2004), Jilted City (2010), Blood Feather (2023) and a memoir, Other People's Countries (2015), which won the Duff Cooper Prize. He was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2011, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

David Bellos is Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature at Princeton University, where he also teaches Comparative Literature. He is the author of many books and articles on nineteenth-century fiction, alongside biographies of three icons of French culture in the twentieth century: Georges Perec, Jacques Tati and Romain Gary. He is also a well-known translator and the author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? The Amazing Adventure of Translation. David Bellos was recently awarded the rank of officier in the Ordre National des Arts et des Lettres for his services to French culture.

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This two-volume feast of an anthology celebrates the rich tradition of the French short story. Spanning four centuries, its pages brim 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.

The collection features the most famous writers across the Francophone world, from Voltaire to Simone de Beauvoir, as well as rare treasures and contemporary writers like Marie Ndiaye and Virginie Despentes, some of them translated for the first time here. By turns playful and profound, sublime and absurd, this first volume takes the reader from the sixteenth century to the glorious 'golden age' of the fin de siècle.

Edited and with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness, academic, writer and translator.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0241461995
• ISBN 13: 9780241461990
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 512
• Redattore: McGuinness Patrick
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