The essays comprising part one cover such topics as the 1968 student protests in Paris, the writer Marguerite Yourcenar
, and the case of Gabrielle Russier
, while the reviews of part two take...
Reception
Mavis Gallant
Her editors considered the first paragraph too sexual, and after a long disagreement MG
consented to their changes. A similar incident occurred when she later wrote about Gabrielle Russier
(a teacher in Marseilles who had...