Full 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.
Contents
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
