The Transparent Girl And Other Stories

Stephanie Corinna Bille, a Swiss short-story writer, playwright, poet, and novelist and winner of the 1975 French Prix Concourt, is often considered the major contemporary Franco-Swiss woman writer. In The Transparent Girl and Other Stories Monika Giacoppe and Christiane Makward have assembled and translated a magnificent collection of Bille's work that exposes an English-speaking audience--many for the first time--to Bille's exotic, captivating, mystical, and sexually provocative stories.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

ix

``The Transparent Girl'' / ``La jeune fille transparente''

1

(2)

from L`Enfant aveugle

``The Cat'' / ``Le Chat''

3

(4)

from L`Enfant aveugle

``The Saint'' / ``La Sainte''

7

(10)

from Douleurs paysannes

``Grape Harvest'' / ``Vendanges''

17

(4)

from Douleurs paysannes

``My Forest, My River'' / ``Ma foret, mon fleuve''

21

(26)

from La Fraise noire

``The Little Girl and the Beast'' ``La petite fille et la Bete''

47

(8)

from La Fraise noire

Eight Tiny Cruel Tales / [miscellaneous titles]

55

(6)

from Cent petites histoires cruelles

``The Knot'' / ``Le Noeud''

61

(6)

from La Demoiselle sauvage

``The Last Confession'' / ``La derniere confession''

67

(10)

from La Demoiselle sauvage

``The Wild Demoiselle'' / ``La Demoiselle sauvage''

77

(24)

from La Demoiselle sauvage

``On Misty Ponds'' / ``Les Etangs de brume''

101

(4)

from Le Salon ovale

``The Oval Room'' / ``Le Salon ovale''

105

(12)

from Le Salon ovale

``The Girls in the Forest of a Thousand Mirrors'' / ``Les Jeunes filles dans la foret aux mille miroirs''

117

(2)

from Le Salon ovale

``The Red Chair'' / ``Le Fauteuil rouge''

119

(4)

from Le Salon ovale

``The Villa in the Reeds'' / ``Villa des Roseaux''

123

(4)

from Le Salon ovale

Eight Tiny Love Tales / [miscellaneous titles]

127

(4)

from Cent pctites histoires d'amour

``Emerentia, 1713'' / ``Emerentia, 1713''

131

(42)

from Deux passions

``The Halloween Fiances'' / ``Les Fiances de la Toussaint''

173

(4)

from Le Bal double

``The Glass Violin'' / ``Le Violon de verre''

177

(4)

from Le Vrai Conte de ma vie

``The Messenger'' / ``Le Messager''

181

(2)

from Le Vrai Conte de ma vie

About the Translators

183

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