Bloomsbury Home
The Transparent Girl and Other Stories
The Transparent Girl and Other Stories
Description
Stephanie Corinna Bille, a Swiss short-story writer, playwright, poet, and novelist and winner of the 1975 French Prix Concourt, is often considered the major contemporary Franco-Swiss woman writer. As a writer, Bille excelled at rendering the woman's experience. She stands out as an elegant writer, a compassionate observer of early twentieth-century Catholic rural life, and a precise painter of the beauty of the natural environment. In over thirty volumes of creative writing, she favored short narrative forms from five lines to eighty pages, exploiting her dreams and fantasies in the wake of the Surrealist revolution. Yet despite her many successes, little has been published about her life and work in English. In The Transparent Girl and Other Stories Monika Giacoppe and Christiane Makward have assembled and translated a magnificent collection of Bille's work that strives to fill this void. Within these pages they expose an English-speaking audience-many for the first time-to Bille's exotic, captivating, mystical, and sexually provocative stories, which will delight scholars of Literature, Francophone Studies, and Women's Studies.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 The Transparent Girl
Chapter 3 The Cat
Chapter 4 The Saint
Chapter 5 Grape Harvest
Chapter 6 My Forest, My River
Chapter 7 The Little Girl and the Beast
Chapter 8 Eight Tiny Cruel Tales from Cent petites histoires cruelles
Chapter 9 The Knot
Chapter 10 The Last Confession
Chapter 11 The Wild Demoiselle
Chapter 12 On Misty Ponds
Chapter 13 The Oval Room
Chapter 14 The Girls in the Forest of a Thousand Mirrors
Chapter 15 The Red Chair
Chapter 16 The Villa in the Reeds
Chapter 17 Eight Tiny Love Tales from Cent petites histoires d'amour
Chapter 18 Emerentia, 1713
Chapter 19 The Halloween Fiances
Chapter 20 The Glass Violin
Chapter 21 The Messenger
Product details
| Published | 28 Mar 2006 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 206 |
| ISBN | 9780739161999 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Series | After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Reviews
Related Titles
