This course seeks to familiarize students with the forms and styles
of French literature and improve their proficiency in reading,
writing and speaking French. We will begin with Carmen, a
novella by the nineteenth century writer Prosper Mérimé, we will
watch a film adaptation of the story and discuss them in an essay.
Then, we will read the novel Tous les matins du monde by the
twentieth-century writer Pascal Quignard, watch the movie it
inspired and write a second essay. We will also study a play, La
Cantatrice chauve, by Ionesco, and as a final project for the
class we will enact it during the last week of classes. Throughout
the session, we will read a significant number of poems by Villon,
Ronsard, Nerval, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, Prévert and
Ponge (texts provided on the course website) and analyze them in
oral « explications de texte ».

Final grade is based on: presence and active participation in class
(20%), individual explication de texte (15%), two short essays (15%
each, 30% for both), written exam (20%), final project on the play
(15%). Taught in French.

Prerequisite is F250. Fulfills A & H requirement.