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Informationen zum Autor Stephanie Corinna Bille (1912D1979) is an acclaimed Franco-Swiss writer. She is the recipient of the prestigious Goncourt award for the short story and the author of two longer stories ('La Demoiselle sauvage' and 'Emerentia, 1713') that have been made into films. Monika Giacoppe is Assistant Professor of World and Comparative Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Christiane P. Makward (D. Lit. Sorbonne) has been a Professor of French and Francophone Studies at The Pennsylvania State University for nearly thirty years. Besides Corinna Bille, her interests in contemporary literatures in French include Caribbean women's theatre and novel, and contemporary women writers generally. She has published several books, translations, and many articles in the field of feminist literary criticism. Klappentext 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. In The Transparent Girl and Other Stories Monika Giacoppe and Christiane Makward have assembled and translated a magnificent collection of Bille's work that exposes an English-speaking audience-many for the first time-to Bille's exotic, captivating, mystical, and sexually provocative stories. Zusammenfassung Stephanie Corinna Bille is a Swiss short-story writer! playwright! poet! and novelist and winner of the 1975 French Prix Concourt. This work assembles and translates a collection of Bille's work that exposes an English-speaking audience to Bille's exotic! captivating! and sexually provocative stories. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction 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...
