This course has 2 starting points: 1) Acquiring another language enables writers to express what often can't be said otherwise. 2) Fiction enables you to write anything true. Major writers are the guides, including Djebar, Marie de France, Hébert, Diop, Balzac, as well as up-and-coming writers. Their works crisscross many times world-wide and are organized to trace the phases defining human life. What – and whom do people desire? How do they work? Why are they caught in conflict? These key questions culminate in a debate on the Vivre-Ensemble – living together – in Algeria, Belgium, France, Lebanon, Québec. French 332 offers an initiation into cultural criticism in French.
Department of Romance Studies