20710214 - French Literature I

One of the main aims of this Course of Study is to provide students with advanced knowledge of two foreign literatures related to the two languages of their choice, paying special attention to intercultural and transcultural dynamics. The course also aims at refining their ability to interpret cultural phenomena, using the tools and methodologies of literary, cultural and historical analysis.
French Literature I is among the characterizing activities of the "Foreign Literatures" area. It provides the student with initial knowledge and understanding of the French literary culture through the reading of exemplary texts analysed paying special attention to intercultural dynamics. It helps students discover the tools and methodologies of literary, cultural and historical analysis.
At the end of the module, students will be able to read and understand literary texts in the original language employing the analytical methods and tools they will have learned in class; furthermore, they will possess the necessary communicative skills to re-elaborate the acquired disciplinary contents.

Canali

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Mutuazione: 20710214 Letteratura francese I in Lingue e letterature per la comunicazione interculturale L-11 R A - L PIETROMARCHI LUCA

Programme

Engagement: Engagement in 20th century French literature, from Sartre's Nausée to Camus' Plague. The course will address the function that the French novel was able to assume as an instrument of awakening of ethical and civic consciousness in the dramatic historical landscape of the first half of the 20th century. In particular, the two masterpieces by Sartre and Camus will be analysed, focusing the figure of a fictional hero who matures the awareness of having to take responsibility, especially political responsibility, for his own becoming, and that of the society in which he is called to live.

Core Documentation

J.-P. Sartre, La Nausée, Folio, 2016.
A. Camus, La Peste, Folio, 1985.

Attendance

Weekly lessons during the first semester (ocrober-december 2025)

Type of evaluation

Oral examination, in Italian, of the reading of the two novels in the programme and the relevant critical bibliography indicated.

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Mutuazione: 20710214 Letteratura francese I in Lingue e letterature per la comunicazione interculturale L-11 R M - Z CATTANI PAOLA

Programme

French novel in the twentieth century

The course will examine three twentieth-century French novels, to investigate transformations and declinations of the genre in the period from the First World War to the 1960s.


Core Documentation

Course material
M. Proust, Du côté de chez Swann
A. Camus, Le premier homme
S. de Beauvoir, Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée




Attendance

Non mandatory

Type of evaluation

Questions in Italian