The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2
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The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2
A major celebration of the French short story across the twentieth century.
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 2 takes the reader through the tumultuous twentieth century in the company of writers including Simone de Beauvoir and Maryse Condé, Patrick Modiano and Virginie Despentes, covering world wars, revolutions, and the horrors of the motorway service station.
Along the way, we meet electronic brains, she-wolves, a sadistic Cinderella, ancestors, infidels, dissatisfied housewives, and lonely ambassadors, all clamouring to be heard. Funny, devastating, and fresh at every turn, this is the place to start for lovers of French literature, new and old.
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780241462065
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 January 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Edited by Patrick McGuinness
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 272g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Patrick McGuinness (External Editor) 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 two collections of poems, The Canals of Mars (2004), and Jilted City (2010), 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.
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