Mavis Gallant (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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A journalist and essayist as well as a writer of fiction, Mavis Gallant has chronicled various social and historical events, such as the case of Gabrielle Russier, a young high school teacher in Marseille, who was driven to suicide by persecution for having become romantically involved with one of her students. Paris Notebooks: Essays and Reviews (1986) is a collection of essays in which Gallant offers observations relating to her many years spent in France, scrutinizing French culture and life in general. Her accounts of the student revolt of 1968...
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