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M. Maciek Wroblewski, a Polish gentile survivor of Dachau, lives in Paris with his senile wife, Magda Zaleska, and their schnauzer, Hector. After the war, …
Mavis Gallant
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Marie had been living in Montreal with Bertha Carette, her sister, since the year her husband died. She had spent 8 Christmases of her life in Fla. where …
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Story which satirizes both the French literary bureaucracy and the tradition of artistic patronage. After beginning and abandoning several projects, the …
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Parody of election rumors surrounding a French politician named Sylvain Mousse. He has divested himself of all his worldly goods. An underground newspaper …
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Short story which parodies travel guides to Paris. The city is depicted as unclean, overpriced, dangerous and uninteresting; full of insipid historical …
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Sandor Speck, 40, owns a small art gallery on the Left Bank in Paris. His first gallery, on the Right Bank, was blown up by Basque separatists. Speck's…
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When Alec Webb, an Englishman, learns he is dying, he moves with his wife Barbara and 3 children to a house on the Riviera. Barbara's brothers in Wales…
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Piotr, a 41 year old Polish poet, falls in love with Laurie Bennett, a young Canadian who lives in Paris. Piotr, is entranced by her cheerfulness, her …
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In the South of France, Netta Asher's family held a 100-year lease on the Hotel Prince Albert and Albion. Netta took over the hotel in her father's…
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Fiction, from 1976: “Asking questions was ‘being tiresome,’ while persistent curiosity got one nowhere, at least nowhere of interest.”
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Fiction, from 1976: “What I craved at this point was not love, or romance, or a life added to mine, but conversation.”
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Carmela, a 12-year-old Italian girl, leaves home for the first time to go to the Ligurian coast, where there is a large Anglo-American colony, to be a …
annals of justice ·
Mavis Gallant on the case of Gabrielle Russier, which scandalized France.
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Gitta, a young actress, had been brought up by her alcoholic aunt, and she was now living with her 39 year old lover who had left his wife and children to …
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Mavis Gallant’s account of the student strikes and police violence that played out in the streets of Paris, in 1968: “We are all living in a future, in something that has not taken place.”
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An English woman and her grown son, Harold are at an Italian ski resort. The mother, greedy for people, and very uncomfortable with Harold, has befriended …
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Stuart Fenwick, a bachelor who has known very few girls for a long time, runs a summer resort called Vacances Pax in France. He had started it when the …
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Amalia Moraru comes to the fortune-teller, Madame Gisele, to ask about her enigmatic friend, Marie. All three are Rumanian expatriates in Paris. Maire, …
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Fiction, from 1965: The children did not know that they were living under what would later be called “unsheltered conditions.” They didn’t know that they were uneducated, and dirty, and in danger.
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Fiction, from 1959: “She had been right through the worst of the air raids, yet this was the worst, this waking in the cold, this dark, dirty dawn.”
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Story about Bonnie McCarthy, an American woman who, together with her daughter, Florence, moved to France after her husband divorced her, and about …
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The events of one day in George Fairlie's life, when he was 7, are often recalled by him & his parents. They were vacationing in Europe. One day in …
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Story about three American girls & their chaperone in Yugoslavia. Miss Baxter left the girls at the hotel beach one afternoon to go into town on the …
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A sister & her three brothers are reunited for the funeral of their mother, who had lefther small grocery store to the eldest son. He had left Montreal and…