Rapid Tales (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781645251248)

From April 1897 until April 1903, Jane de La Vaud鑽e (1857-1908) published in the Parisian newspapers La Presse and La Lanterne a series of over one hundred vignettes, mostly under the heading Contes Rapides. These brief stories, of beauty, horror, humor, love, and cruelty, carry strategies of narrative minimalism to a new level, and show the work of a masterful female author who was able to polish gems of decadence to sparkling perfection in the highly misogynistic environment of fin-de-si鐵le journalism dominated by her male counterparts. This collection, assembled and translated into English by Brian Stableford, offers the first opportunity that anyone has ever had to read the series of rapid tales as a series and to asses it as a collage; as a bird's eye view of contemporary Parisian society it is highly selective and idiosyncratic, but that only serves to make it more interesting, and as a pioneering adventure in narrative minimalization it offers a significant exemplar to modern writers' workshops.

Author: Jane de la Vaud鑽e
ISBN-10: 1645251241
ISBN-13: 9781645251248
Publisher: Snuggly Books
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2023
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d