Brief description of the course
Reading and discussing extracts from the following works: Proust ”A la Recherche du temps perdu”, Valéry ”Monsieur Teste”, Gide ”Les Nourritures terrestres”, Claudel ”Partage du midi”, Mauriac ”L'Agneau”, Apollinaire ”La chanson du Mal-aimé”, Breton, Eluard, Aragon (poetry), Sartre (”Huis clos”, ”La Nausée”), Beauvoir ”Le deuxième sexe”, Camus ”Le mythe de Sisyphe” ”L'Etranger”, Ionesco ”Rhinocéros” Beckett ”En attendant Godot”, Cocteau ”Orphée”, Robbe-Grillet, ”Djinn” Céline ”Mort à crédit”, Vian ”L'Ecume des jours”, Queneau ”Exercices de style”, Le Clézio ”Le procès-verbal”, Yourcenar ”l'Oeuvre au noir”, Duras ”L'Amant”.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
Knowledge of the above-mentioned authors and their work.
Capacity to read and analyse texts in French.
Ability to discuss the style and language of a literary work, its pertinence to a certain movement in literature.
Capacity to analyse a poem according to the main cathegories of metrics.