Mavis Gallant Collected Stories
Mavis Gallant Collected Stories by Mavis Gallant is a comprehensive anthology published by Everyman in 2016, featuring 1,096 pages in English. This collection includes fifty-two stories carefully selected by the author from her extensive body of work, accompanied by a preface where she reflects on the inspirations behind her writing.
Readers will encounter a diverse array of narratives that showcase Gallant’s skillful use of irony and attention to detail. The stories traverse various locations, including Paris, Berlin, and the Riviera, often focusing on characters who are exiles, mirroring Gallant’s own experiences as an expatriate. Through her precise prose and insightful exploration of human experiences, this collection offers a rich and nuanced reading experience.
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This generous collection of fifty-two stories selected from across her prolific career by the author, is preceded by a preface in which she discusses the sources of her art.
With irony and an unfailing eye for the telling detail, Gallant weaves stories of spare complexity, often pushing the boundaries of the form in boldly unconventional directions. The settings in the COLLECTED STORIES range from Paris to Berlin to Switzerland, from the Riviera to the C te d’Azur, and her characters are almost all exiles of one sort or another, as she herself was the most of her expatriate life.
The wit and precision of her prose, combined with her expansive view of humanity, provide a rare and deep reading pleasure. With breathtaking control and compression, Gallant delivers a whole life, a whole world, in each story.
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