SHORT, CRUEL FAIRYTALES
For seven years Anca Visdei wrote a “short, cruel fairytale” every Saturday for ‘La Gazette de Lausanne. These stories, with their original register and daring subjects provoked a lively reaction from readers. A large number of these stories have been put together in four volumes.

SHORT, CRUEL FAIRYTALES

The Book :

Club Zéro publications,
relaunched under La femme pressée list.
ISBN 2-910584-09-7

THE MID-LIFE ANGEL and
OTHER TALES IN WHICH THE DEVIL INTERFERES

The Book :

Club Zéro publications,
relaunched under La femme pressée list.
ISBN 2-910584-09-7

DEADLY CLAPTRAP

The Book :

Clin d’Oeil publications

out of print

PLEASE, I’M AN EXCEPTION

The Book :

Sauvage publications

out of print
Dramatic Productions :
Some of these texts have been dramatized in Paris under the heading ‘Short, Cruel Fairytales’ with Séverine Poupin and Vincent Wallez

- Le Train Bleu

- The Swiss Foundation
(Cité Universitaire)

Reviews :

-« Anca Visdei’s writing is always full of surprises and here treats someone’s amusing downfall, the element of paradox…… Her humour brings the world of imagination into relief through the technique of unexpected reality…… Anca Visdei brilliantly handles the art of volte-face. »
Claire Jaquier - Journal de Genève


-« Bursting with healthy, light and daring laughter, Anca Visdei stuns us with her short, vigorous stories, joyously playing with words before taking the scalpel to impose her cutting style ……. the cutting edge of language where tenderness vies with cruelty. »
Simone Collet - Jours de France


-« What I find so remarkable in Anca Visdei’s work is her spirit of independence… and the originality of expression she achieves… What I like most of all … if I may say so …is the humour.
Jean-Louis Kuffer - Le Matin


- « …the tops! Her book consists of short texts, astonishing fables in which she gives everything – femininity, fragility, stamina all in one. Her pen dances across the epidermis of false verities and enjoys amusing us with salutary teasing.»
Vincent Philippe – La Tribune


-« A literary talent… undeniably.»
Pierre Gripari - Ecrits de Paris