Shorter than a novel yet longer and more complex than a short story, the novella is a marvelous literary genre for our fast-paced modern age when the time to sit and ponder a novelist’s detailed descriptions may be all too fleeting. Thanks to its concision, the novella can be enjoyed with pleasure  in one or two sittings. If you are an aficionado of French literature, you may well delight in this SDG that offers a sampling of its novellas in translation spanning the 18th through the 21st centuries. Participants will read: Candide (Voltaire) Le Colonel Chabert (Balzac), Boule de Suif (Maupassant), Pierre and Jean (Maupassant), The Silence of the Sea (Vercors) The Stranger (Camus), and The Meursault Investigation (Daoud). Please come and join us at GAYLEY for this 10 week tour de force.

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