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1 de mar. de 2016 · Paris Stories gathers classic stories about the City of Light by a wide range of writers across four centuries. Perhaps no other European city has so captured the imagination of the artistically and romantically minded. Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores, and Restif de la Bretonne ...
2 de jul. de 2012 · Mavis Gallant published a hundred and sixteen stories in The New Yorker before her death, in 2014, at the age of ninety-one. Born in Montreal, Gallant lived most of her life in varieties of exile ...
Mavis Leslie de Trafford Gallant Young, (11 de agosto de 1922 – 18 de fevereiro de 2014) foi uma escritora canadense que passou grande parte da sua vida e carreira na França. [1] Ela é mais famosa por seus contos , além de ter publicado romances, peças e ensaios.
From Brick 73. In a characteristic mingling of modesty and fierce pride, Mavis Gallant has said that “one of the hardest things in the world is to describe what happened next.”. It’s hard because of the value- and emotion-laden nature, not just of memory, but of human consciousness itself. Though nothing truly escapes us, memory and mind ...
2 de abr. de 2008 · Mavis Leslie Gallant, CC, writer (born 11 August 1922 in Montréal, QC; died 18 February 2014 in Paris, France). In 1950, 28-year-old Montréal native Mavis Gallant decided to do something that many, many before and after her have done. She decided to move to Paris and become a writer. But inside a few years, Gallant did something that few ...
1 de jan. de 2006 · Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to the New Yorker for close to fifty years, and the undisputed master of the short story. Her peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequaled skill. This superb collection of fifteen of Gallant's stories, edited and with an introduction by bestselling author Michael Ondaatje ...
18 de mai. de 2011 · Paris Stories Kindle Edition. by Mavis Gallant (Author)Format: Kindle Edition. 4.0 139 ratings. See all formats and editions. Internationally celebrated, award-winning author Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend: an undisputed master of the short story whose peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place ...
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