The Transparent Girl and Other Stories

By: Corinna Bille, Monika Giacoppe (Translator), Christiane P. Makward (Translator)

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Paperback | 28 March 2006

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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. As a writer, Bille excelled at rendering the woman's experience. She stands out as an elegant writer, a compassionate observer of early twentieth-century Catholic rural life, and a precise painter of the beauty of the natural environment. In over thirty volumes of creative writing, she favored short narrative forms from five lines to eighty pages, exploiting her dreams and fantasies in the wake of the Surrealist revolution. Yet despite her many successes, little has been published about her life and work in English. In The Transparent Girl and Other Stories Monika Giacoppe and Christiane Makward have assembled and translated a magnificent collection of Bille's work that strives to fill this void. Within these pages they expose an English-speaking audience—many for the first time—to Bille's exotic, captivating, mystical, and sexually provocative stories, which will delight scholars of Literature, Francophone Studies, and Women's Studies.

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These wonderfully faithful translations catch both the freedom and poignancy of S. Corinna Bille's most hauntingly beautiful short stories. They show why this grande dame of French Swiss literature is still considered today its most daring, original, and rebellious writer. They are essential for anyone interested in women's studies and Francophone literature; above all, they make for wonderful reading. -- Denise Rochat, Smith College
This introduction to the leading French Swiss woman writer is long overdue. Mackward and Giacoppe have effectively translated an appealing selection of short fiction by this proto-feminist. Their subtle scholarly apparatus is an added boon for students of women's writing. -- Marilyn Gaddis Rose, Binghamton University

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