by A.S. Byatt · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080687432
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«Petits contes noirs» is A. S. Byatt's collection of short stories, published by Flammarion in paperback (240 pages, in French).
In five stories, two friends return to the forest where as girls they saw something inexplicable, a woman turns to stone and travels to Iceland with a sculptor, and a man is visited by the ghost of his wife, who is still alive. Byatt reclaims fairy tales for adults: unsettling, funny and sad stories.
French translation by Jean-Louis Chevalier of the original «Little Black Book of Stories»; the story «La chose dans la forêt» received the O. Henry Award in 2003.
For readers of literary fiction, dark fantasy and fairy tales for adults, with a taste for unsettling atmospheres.
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, known professionally by her former married name, A. S. Byatt, was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
