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Mavis Gallant

Paris Stories Capa comum – 26 novembro 2002

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Internationally celebrated, award-winning author Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend: an undisputed master of the short story whose peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequalled skill. This new selection of Gallant’s stories, edited by novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje, gathers the best of her many stories set in Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Here she writes of expatriates and locals, exile and homecoming, and of the illusions of youth and age, offering a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within the world that is Paris.

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Internationally celebrated, award-winning author Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend: an undisputed master of the short story whose peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequalled skill. This new selection of Gallant?s stories, edited by novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje, gathers the best of her many stories set in Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Here she writes of expatriates and locals, exile and homecoming, and of the illusions of youth and age, offering a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within the world that is Paris.

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“She stands among the best writers of the century.”
–Canadian Forum

“Mavis Gallant’s finely honed prose captures the small details that illuminate a life.”
–Publishers Weekly

“Mavis Gallant writes some of the most superbly crafted and perceptive stories of our time.”
–Globe and Mail

“Ms. Gallant, who has dared to drift in a disorienting century, always trusting her own imaginative compass. Her fiction, never fooled into trying to keep up with history, will last a long time.”
–New York Times Book Review

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Editora ‏ : ‎ McClelland & Stewart (26 novembro 2002)
Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglês
Capa comum ‏ : ‎ 376 páginas
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 077103282X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0771032820
Dimensões ‏ : ‎ 12.75 x 2.06 x 20.47 cm

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Claude Forthomme

An Acquired Taste

Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 10 de abril de 2014

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From a celebrated writer such as Mavis Gallant, I expected more. It was certainly brilliantly written and observed but too often the stories left one with a feeling of incompleteness. Of course, that is the Gallant style: suggest rather than state, swerve rather than go in a straight line. Also, the recurrent theme - nomads trying to find their place in the world and failing to do so - is necessarily melancholy. Thus many of those stories leave one with a desire to see some sort of conclusion that never comes and that can be a disappointing reading experience.

On the other hand, once one realizes that this is inherent in Gallant's "New Yorker" style of writing, then one can simply go ahead and savor it. It's like an acquired taste (as one of the other reviewers here aptly suggested). Accept the Gallant premise and enjoy the richness and subtlety of her writing...

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Mark

A Simply brilliant writer

Avaliado no Reino Unido em 28 de setembro de 2012

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Mavis Gallant is one of those writers who don't make waves but yet command enormous respect from those who have the good fortune to read her work. As far as being a writer goes, Gallant is the real deal. She left Canada in her twenties and went to Europe, believing that writers ought not to have it easy if they were to learn their trade. She didn't and almost starved in Madrid in the early fifties. She later settled in Paris where she still lives.

Gallant's writing is economical and spare but has an emotional precision that can be breathtaking. She evokes in a few words exchanges and experiences that many writers would struggle to express at all.

If you love reading or you are or want to be a writer, you owe it yourself to discover her work if you haven't already.

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Ruth Campbell

If you choose one Mavis Gallant collection, this is the one

Avaliado no Reino Unido em 6 de dezembro de 2013

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If Alice Munro can get the Nobel prize, I dont see why this great Canadian writer has been overlooked. Her stories range over a wide spectrum of people, places and times and offer sharp and comprehensive insights into what we do to each other and ourselves. These 'Paris stories' offer an outsiders' view of goings on in Europe (and not just by Europeans) from the 1930s on. Very instructive as a basis for understanding how a specific culture (place, gender, age) steers universal needs and desires. Each story plays out over time, and as events unfold, you have a front row seat, thanks to her clear perspective and lucid writing.

Every story in this collection is a winner - not true of some of the other MG collections.

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R. E. Cooke

Short Story Artist Extraordinaire

Avaliado nos Estados Unidos em 20 de abril de 2014

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'Paris Stories' by Mavis Gallant (1922-2014) is to be savored like a fine French meal. She was a Canadian reporter first in Montreal but her true love was writing fiction. In 1950 she moved to Paris to pursue her dream and remained there as an ex-pat breathing in the atmosphere while writing short stories. It was beneficial to read the 'Afterword' at the back first. It is a short story in itself, telling a little about her history, life and writing style. She can magically take a slice of a character's life and show the human side of him or her in a concise, witty way. She places the protagonist in a Paris apartment, street, cafe or Riviera hotel and these places seem like characters as well. Gallant has left the world with a legacy of brilliant short stories which require a slow reading pace to savor each turn of a phrase.

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Karan

A genius with details and character-sketch

Avaliado na Índia em 27 de julho de 2015

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Gallant has an amazing eye for detail. She does something more than that. She packs her stories and characters with details and is never quick to judge them. Often, she doesnt judge them and doesnt make it easy even for the reader to do so. However, at times, I felt some of her stories lack emotional aspect which made me feel a bit suffocated. Her character sketches are marvellous. Within a para or two, she can bring in details of a life-long. My favourite of the lot is 'The Moslem Wife'. I will go back to this story again and again.

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