Pierre Jouvent explains why he has never got past the Italian frontier: on each attempt a woman met on the train detained him. The other stories, in Ernest Boyd’s translation, include “The Little Cask”, the eerie “He?”, “My Uncle Sosthène” and “The Accursed Bread”, full of desire, greed and comic cruelty.
Classic French short fiction from the master of the form. Download the free EPUB.