FREN 348 - Modernism and its Discontents

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

Topic for 2014/15a: Modern Masterpieces. The course focuses on literary and artistic output in the twentieth century, taking Paris as its point of departure. We study a selection of works commonly viewed as masterpieces, and consider the evolution of a category both revered and repudiated as a window on the turbulent transformations of life and art during the period. Authors may include: Proust, Gide, Colette, Césaire, Camus, Sartre, Becket, Duras. Mr. Andrews.

One 2-hour period.