num_pages: 376
description: 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 rambunctious tale fromthe 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 Renée Vivien, Colette, and Beauvoir, and newerwriters 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 they make reading exciting.
language: English
title: The Oxford Book of French Short Stories
titlecomplete: The Oxford Book of French Short Stories
genres: France, Fiction, Anthologies, Short Stories
ratings_count: 39
publisher: Oxford University Press