Bertrand Cardin
Bertrand Cardin is a Professor of Irish Literature at the University of Caen Normandie, France. He is the author of several critical works on contemporary literature, including Neil Jordan, Author and Screenwriter. The Imagination of Transgression (Peter Lang, Oxford-New York, 2023), and Colum McCann’s Intertexts: Books Talk to One Another (Cork University Press, 2016). He is very interested in the short story genre, on which he has also written and published, notably a PhD thesis on the short stories of John McGahern and a special issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English/ Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle devoted to “The 21st Century Irish Short Story” (No 63, Presses de l’Université d’Angers, Autumn 2014). The Butterfly Effect and Other Short Stories is his first work of fiction.