FRENCH LITERATURE
Oral
The program will be focused on writers who call, starting from the title of one of Agota Kristof’s novels, Analphabètes, namely all those foreign writers who have chosen to write in French some of their works and have become an essential part of the literary history of France. Students will be provided the tools of critical and methodological basics for the analysis of the literary text.
The program will be divided into two modules: MODULE A dedicated to the knowledge of the “illiterate” french writers of the twentieth century (30 hours); the MODULE B will allow students to get closer to the “illiterate” emerging writers of the last twenty years (30 hours).
MODULE A:
1) Samuel Beckett, En attendant Godot. (1952).
2) Eugène Ionesco, La cantatrice chauve. (1950).
3) Tahar Ben Jelloun, L’Écrivain public. (1983).
4) Agota Kristof, L’Analphabète. (2004).
MODULE B:
5) Atiq Rahimi, Syngué sabour. Pierre de patience. 2008.
6) Yasmina Khadra, L’écrivain. 2001.
7) Andreï Makine, Testament français. 1995.
8) Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis. 2000-2003 vol. 1-2-3-4 (bande dessinnée).
RECOMMENDING READING:
1) Pierre BRUNEL et al. Histoire de la littérature française, XIXe-XXe siècle, Bordas,
1996 (20th century).
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