Corinna Bille’s Short Stories: The Ambivalence of Dream
Abstract
An author of novels, poems, plays and short stories, Corinna Bille distinguished herself especially through her short stories, which brought her several literary prizes. After having experimented with the real (Douleurs paysannes and L’enfant aveugle), she turned towards its transgression, towards the dream-like and the fantastic (La fraise noire, La demoiselle sauvage, Le salon ovale, Le bal double, Cent petites histoires d’amour, Cent petites histoires cruelles, etc.), an aspect which we mean to explore in the present study. It is especially the dream what impregnates her work with a primitive and mysterious sensual delight, giving birth to ambiguous, original images, to wild and transparent characters, the beauty and intensity of whose feelings stretches beyond the limits of concrete reality.Downloads
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