法国的短篇小说在莫泊桑时代进人了全盛时期,到二十世纪却似乎跌入了低谷,不再出现像《最后一课》和《羊脂球》那样脍炙人口和引起轰动的作品了。造成这种状况有多方面的原因,本文试图对法国当代的短篇小说予以客观的介绍和评析。一简要的回顾顾名思义,短篇小说是一种简短的叙事体裁。在意大利的短篇小说,特别是薄伽丘的《十日谈》的影响下,法国最早的匿名之作 French short stories entered the heyday of the Maupassant era and seem to have plunged into the trough of the twentieth century. No longer have such popular and sensational works as the Last Lesson and the Suet Ball. There are many reasons for this situation, this article attempts to objectively introduce and comment on the French contemporary short stories. A brief review As the name suggests, short stories are a short narrative genre. Under the influence of the Italian short stories, especially Boccaccio’s “Decameron,” the earliest anonymous works in France