French Studies 397S - ST-The French Short Story

Our objective in this course will be both literary and cultural. Starting with the 19th century writers Flaubert and Maupassant and continuing with the short prose works of such 20th and 21st century authors as Colette, Sartre, Camus, Duras, Ernaux, Tournier, Le Clezio, Gavalda and Schmitt, we will examine and discuss the succession and the interplay of major socio-political, intellectual and literary trends and upheavals that transformed French society from the late 19th to the early 21st century. All readings, discussion and papers will be in French.