20710214 - French Literature I

One of the general objectives of the cds is the advanced knowledge of two foreign literatures related to the two chosen languages, with particular attention to intercultural and transcultural dynamics, with the aim of honing the ability to interpret cultural phenomena, through the tools and methodologies of literary, cultural and historical analysis.

The teaching of French Literature I is part of the training activities characterizing the "Foreign Literatures" sector and aims at the objective described above. Introduces the student to the knowledge and understanding of French literary culture through the reading of exemplary texts, analyzed with particular attention to intercultural dynamics; the student will also be introduced to the tools and methodologies of literary, cultural and historical analysis.

The student will be able to read and understand literary texts in the language by applying the tools and methodologies of analysis learned; he will also possess the communication skills necessary for the re-elaboration of disciplinary content.

Curriculum

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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 situation 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

teacher profile | teaching materials

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

teacher profile | teaching materials

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 situation 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.