Mixed Signals in Mailer’s “La Petite Bourgeoise”

Authors

“La Petite Bourgeoise”, short fiction, unpublished fiction, French literature, the bourgeoisie, irony

A close reading of a “La Petite Bourgeoise,” a recently published early short story by Norman Mailer.

Jeanne Fuchs, Hofstra University

Jeanne Fuchs is Professor Emerita in the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages at Hofstra University. She published an essay “George Sand: Notorious Woman, Celebrated Writer” in The Lincoln Center Theater Review (Fall/Winter 2006) devoted to Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia. She is co-editor with Ruth Prigozy of Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend (URP 2007) and has a monograph on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Pursuit of Virtue: A Study of Order in La Nouvelle Héloïse (Peter Lang 1993). She has also written on Molière, Marivaux, Alfred de Musset, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Mailer. Her memoir, The Road to Epidauros, was published by Author House in 2011.