Face-to-face , second term, 30 hours of theory and 15 hours of personal work.

Second term
Wednesday from 15:45 to 17:45
Thursday from 15:45 to 16:45

French

ROMA1395A - [2 Q. • 30 Th. • Pond. : 30] Isabelle Ost
ROMA1395B - [2 Q. • 15 Ex. • Pond. : 70] Isabelle Ost

The course involves :
- knowing the main works and autors of French-speaking contemporary literature
- recognizing their historical and sociological context
- understanding the worth and the particular characteristics
- analysing a main work of French-speaking contemporeray literature

For the Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Letters : General :

None

The course studies the works of the most recognized authors of Frenchspeaking
contemporary literature, locates them in their context and brings out
the singular answer they have given to the discourses peculiar to the time.
The course will focus on three areas : 1) the question of the narrative, 2) the
crisis of the identifications, 3) literature in a world of images.
The seminary promotes the exportation of the theoretical tools explained
during the course and their personal use by students. A personal research
study leads to an oral presentation and subsequently a written report which
takes account of the oral sharing of results.

Lectures and exercices

Oral examination (30%) and Written report (70%)

Jean Echenoz, Le méridien de Greenwich, 1979
Jean-Philippe Toussaint, L'appareil-photo, 1989
Nicole Malinconi, Nous Deux, 1993
Gaëtan Soucy, L'immaculée conception, 1994
Tanguy Viel, Le Black Note, 1998
Marie Ndiaye, Les Serpents, 2004
Grégoire Polet, Excusez les fautes du copiste, 2006
Emmanuel Carrère, Limonov, 2011