by Ambrose Bierce · GRASSET · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246366331
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«Histoires impossibles» is a collection of fantastic and macabre short stories by Ambrose Bierce, published by Grasset in paperback (159 pages, in French).
Ambrose Bierce writes seventeen stories that move from the fantastic to the supernatural, with an ironic and ruthless eye. His plots mix the grotesque with the macabre and treat death as a game, in a tone close to surreal black humour.
Published in 1985, it belongs to the Les Cahiers Rouges collection from Grasset. The edition weighs 146 g and measures 12.1 x 19 cm.
For lovers of fantastic fiction and black humour, and for those who want to approach a classic of nineteenth-century American literature.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American author, journalist, and poet. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi speculates that "he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produced, and in this regard can take his place with such figures as Juvenal, Swift, and Voltaire." His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway and others, and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic. In recent decades, Bierce has gained wider respect as a fabulist and poet.
