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MISANTHROPIC TALES IBD

SNUGGLY BOOKS
02 / 2018
9781943813537
Inglés

Sinopsis

Misanthropic Tales, first published in 1831, is the first collection of stories in a genre that was given numerous other titles&mdash,all equally inappropriate&mdash,by various practitioners before and after the one that eventually caught on to a greater extent than its rivals: Contes cruels. These are stories that set out to oppose the conventions of fiction that encourage embellishments of various sorts, including and especially the contrivance of &ldquo,happy endings,&rdquo, deliberately violating the ordinary reader&rsquo,s hope and expectation that a story will end &ldquo,well.&rdquo,In this, S. Henry Berthoud&rsquo,s seminal volume, translated into English for the first time by Brian Stableford, we are offered thirty-four such tales of disenchantment, not so much stories as anti-stories to be enjoyed, in a connoisseur fashion, by discriminating readers possessed of refined taste, who are aware of the essential hypocrisy of the fictional conventions the tales defy and deny.