Varieties of Exile New Essays on Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant has been described by Michael Ondaatje as &la" one of the great short story writers of our time. Since 1950, her short stories and novels have commanded the interests of readers in North America and Europe alike. Varieties of Exile: New Essays on Mavis Gallant approaches her work from a variety of perspectives, with particular emphasis on the key role that irony plays in her writings. The contributors include some of the world's leading authorities on Gallant, as well as her finest translators. This book features a discussion of the issues involved in translating Gallant's prose from English to French. In a question and answer session, Mavis Gallant speaks about her art, reminisces about some events in her life, and reflects on the working of memory. Contents: Nicole Cote: Introduction - Danielle Schaub: Mavis Gallant's Irony and its Destabilizing Double Edge: Translating the Exile's Experience - Janice Kulyk Keefer: &la" Radiant Paradigms and Chinks of Light: Mavis Gallant's Polish Emigres in Paris - Agnes Whitfield: (Dis)playing Differance. &la" Across the Bridge by Mavis Gallant - Marta Dvorak: Mavis Gallant's Fiction: Taking the (Rhetorical) Measure of the Turning Point - Table ronde sur la traduction des oeuvres de Mavis Gallant - Mavis Gallant: Questions and Answers/Questions et reponses.Cote, Nicole is the author of 'Varieties of Exile New Essays on Mavis Gallant', published 2002 under ISBN 9780820456935 and ISBN 0820456934.