Cambridge Introduction to French Literature
Cambridge Introduction to French Literature In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature - its themes and forms, traditions and transformations -…
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Cambridge Introduction to French Literature
In this highly accessible introduction, Brian Nelson provides an overview of French literature - its themes and forms, traditions and transformations - from the Middle Ages to the present. Nelson offers close readings of exemplary passages from key works, presented in English translation and with the original French. Major writers, including Francophone authors writing from areas other than France, are discussed chronologically in the context of their times, to provide a sense of the development of the French literary tradition and the strengths of some of the most influential writers within it.
The exploration of the work of important writers, including Villon, Racine, Moli re, Voltaire, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Sartre and Beckett, highlights the richness and diversity of French