The French Fiction Set Consisting of French Tales and Paris Tales
by Constantine, HelenFormat: Package
Pub. Date: 2009-11-26
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography
Helen Constantine is a translator and editor of Modern Poetry in Translation along with her husband, poet David Constantine. Her translations include Spaced, Displaced by Henri Michaux.
Table of Contents
Paris Tales
Introduction
1. Nightmare, Guy de Maupassant
2. The Green Monster, Gérard de Nerval
3. The Last Napoleon, Honoré de Balzac
4. Squares, Emile Zola
5. A Parisian Adventure, Guy de Maupassant
6. Montmartre Cemetery, Colette
7. The Gare Saint-Lazare, Michael Butor
8. A House in the Place des Fêtes, Roger Grenier
9. The Twentieth Arrondissement, Léon-Paul Fargue
10. In Notre-Dame, Julien Green
11. The Runaway, Georges Perec
12. Rue du Commerce, Jacques Réda
13. Plan of Occupancy, Jean Echenoz
14. The Adventure, Cyrille Fleischman
15. What Goes on in Saint-Germain, Anna Gavalda
16. Manuscript Found at Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Frédédric Beigbeder
17. The Man with the Collecting Box, Didier Daeninckx
18. The Joyful Death of Fassola, Andrée Chedid
19. Blind Experiment, Hugo Marsan
20. Feeding the Hungry, Vincent Ravalec
21. Family Portrait, Maryse Condé
Biographical information
French Tales
Introduction
1. Bretagne
You should have changed at Dol, Annie Saumont
2. Basse-Normandie
Made for Two, Daniel Boulanger
3. Haute-Normandie
A Norman, Guy de Maupassant
4. Nord-Pas-de-Calais
The Voiceless, Christian Garcin
5. Picardie
The Garden of Illusions, Pierre Mac Orlan
6. Ile-de-France
Rue de L'Évangile, Marcel Aymé
7. Champagne Ardenne
Light Souls, Stéphane Émond
8. Lorraine
The House in the Woods, Stéphane Émond
9. Alsace
The Phantom of Rainbow Street, Didier Daeninckx
10. Pays-de-la-Loire
The Saviours of the White Wine, René Bazin
11. Centre
The Cattle Man, Daniel Boulanger
12. Bourgogne
Where are the children?, Colette
13. Franche-Comté
The Vanishing, Louis Pergaud
14. Poitou-Charentes
Julie, Jacques Chardonne
15. Limousin
Four Walls, Claude Michelet
16. Auvergne
A Mother's Tale, Guy de Maupassant
17. Rhone-Alpes
The Bull from Jouvet, Paul Hervieu
18. Aquitaine
We can't go on like this, Anne-Marie Garat
19. Midi-Pyrénées
The Flood, Émile Zola
20. Languedoc-Roussillon
The Beaucaire Coach, Alphonse Daudet
21. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
The Pope's Mule, Alphonse Daudet
22. Corse
Mateo Falcone, Prosper Mérimée
Notes on the Stories
Further Reading
Map
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