The Penguin Book of French Short Stories. Volume 2

"A story ? No. No stories, never again..." Celebrating the French short story over the course of the twentieth century, this anthology of playful, moving, funny, caustic and joyful tales shows the astonishing pluralism of the form, and of the Francophone world. It includes writers from Simone de Beauvoir to Maryse Condé, Patrick Modiano to Virginie Despentes, as well as many newly translated voices, covering world wars, she-wolves, colonialism, revolutions and the horrors of the motorway service station.
There are puzzles and fables, stories about the self and the other, the centre and the periphery ; experimental and existential, real and surreal, always testing and expanding the boundaries of the story itself.