Originally published in 1923, this book contains the French text of seven short stories by seven influential French authors: Nodier, Balzac, Vigny, Gautier, Flaubert, Mérimée and Maupassant. The ...

“It’s unbearable,” she told the court in the southern French city of Avignon in an hour of testimony. "I have so much to say that I don’t always know where to start.” Dominique ...

If you're looking to submit to the French short story prize, you can enter here. You can see the complete rules and regulations here. If you are a writing group, library, school or bookstore ...

Class conducted in French. This course will introduce students to the cultural aspects of the specific genres of fairy tales and short stories in French literature. In addition to the printed texts, ...

As the semester starts and the pace ramps up, not all of us have the time to read more books for fun on top of our classes’ ...

(John Frow) GENDER AND GENRE ARE related in more ways than one. A glance at the dictionary tells us that the two words were born from the same root word in Latin by way of Old French – genus, meaning ...

She is expected to speak in court after her ex-husband's testimony on Tuesday. Under French law, the proceedings inside the courtroom cannot be filmed or photographed. Dominique Pélicot is ...

His ur-French dish of boiled meats and veggies is a profound ... The scrawny, tortured genius who wrote the novel “Dead Souls” and the short story “The Overcoat” was, in life and on the page, besotted ...

Will Boast is the author of a story collection, Power Ballads (Iowa Short Fiction Award ... She has an M.A. in French and Italian (University of Edinburgh, 1984) and a postgraduate M.Soc.Sc ...

But while it might save tears in the short term, in the long run all that praise becomes diluted and meaningless. Instead, Druckerman notes, “After children have learned to talk, [French] adults ...

Surrealism has been an international movement since its inception. However, in the following pages we will focus mainly on the Paris surrealist group, initially around André Breton, but which ...

Thibodeaux Fields' class-action lawsuit uncovered a system that has economically exploited young women for decades, exchanging meager pay for the promise of prestige and a spot in one of sports’ most ...