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.

About the Author
Stephanie Corinna Bille (1912-1979) is an acclaimed Franco-Swiss writer. She is the recipient of the prestigious Goncourt award for the short story and the author of two longer stories ("La Demoiselle sauvage" and "Emerentia, 1713") that have been made into films. Monika Giacoppe is Assistant Professor of World and Comparative Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Christiane P. Makward (D. Lit. Sorbonne) has been a Professor of French and Francophone Studies at The Pennsylvania State University for nearly thirty years. Besides Corinna Bille, her interests in contemporary literatures in French include Caribbean women's theatre and novel, and contemporary women writers generally. She has published several books, translations, and many articles in the field of feminist literary criticism.

Reviews
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



Book Information
ISBN 9780739112953
Author Corinna Bille
Format Paperback
Page Count 206
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Lexington Books
Weight(grams) 490g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 164mm * 26mm