French Studies 397S - ST-The French Short Story

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Our objective in this course will be both literary and cultural. Through the short prose works of authors such as Maupassant, Colette, Aime, Sartre, Camus, de Beauvoir, Gary, Duras, Ernaux, Tournier, Le Clezio and Gavalda we will examine and attempt to understand the succession of major trends and upheavals, both socio-political and intellectual, that transformed French society from the late 19th to early 21st century. All readings, discussion and papers will be in French.