French Lessons - A MemoirPaperback
French Lessons - A MemoirPaperback Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. Kaplan begins with a distinctly American quest for an…
Specifikacia French Lessons - A MemoirPaperback
French Lessons - A MemoirPaperback
Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. Kaplan begins with a distinctly American quest for an imaginary France of the intelligence. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning.
After her father's death when she was seven, French became her way of "leaving home" and finding herself in another language and culture. But soon her infatuation with all things French comes up against the dark, unimagined recesses of French political and cultural life.The daughter of a Jewish lawyer who prosecuted Nazi war criminals at Nuremburg, Kaplan grew up in the 1960s in the Midwest. In spare, midwestern prose, by turns intimate and wry, Kaplan describes how, as a student in a Swiss boarding school and later in a junior