French Short Stories

These eight stories, by leading French writers of this century, are accompanied by a parallel English text and explanations of the less familiar French phrases, making them valuable for both English students of French and French students of English.Among the diverse and entertaining stories in this collection is the wistful masterpiece Green Tobacco by Claire Sainte-Soline, the exuberant tales of The Ants by the post-war king of cafe society Boris Vian, and the lucid realism of writers such as C. F. Ramuz and Andre de Mandiargues.Together the stories are a fascinating insight into the quality of French life and literature.