Stories to Read on the Couch

'Stories carry us into other lives, evoking feelings so real they impress. It's moments outside this world where the new can be extravagant, surprising, unthinkable. Or deliciously bucolic. And so, between one and the other, we get involved in an intriguing way: either we can't interrupt the reading at all, or we do it moved by the urgency in dividing the intense fascination.'