Courses Descriptions
HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATURE - THE SECOND HALF OF THE XXth CENTURY
- HLF
- IIIrd year, spring term: 2 h/week
- dr Marcin KLIK , dr Wiesław KROKER, dr Joanna ŻUROWSKA
- Department for French Literature
A study of major literary phenomena of the 20th century (dadaism, surrealism, Theater of the Absurd, existentialism, Nouveau Roman...) and the most outstanding writers of the past century, such as G. Apollinaire, B. Cendrars, P. Valéry, A. Jarry, M. Proust, J.-P. Sartre, A. Camus, A. Robbe-Grillet, S. Beckett, E. Ionesco. Analysis of forms and themes of selected works will help to position them in the context of the entire literary output of the author, along with defining their position in the literary tradition. Students will be required to prepare short reports on aesthetic conceptions of particular writers (conceptions concerning creation, the role of language in the process of creating, relation of tradition and modernity, relations of literature with other arts…).
Credit (Ph. D. Wiesław KROKER): assiduity, activity, tests, composition.
Credit (Ph.D. Marcin KLIK): active participation in class, short reports, test.
Bibliography for the classes of Ph. D. Wiesław Kroker: to be given during the classes.
Bibliography for the classes of Ph. D. M. Klik:
1. G. Apollinaire – Les colchiques, Le Pont Mirabeau, Zone, Les fenêtres, La jolie rousse, Lundi, rue Christine, La Colombe poignardée et le jet d’eau, Il pleut.
2. P.Valéry – Le Cimetière Marin, Les pas, Les grenades, Introduction à la méthode de Léonard de Vinci, Monsieur Teste.
3. B. Cendrars – Pâques à New York, La prose du Transsibérien.
4. Les manifestes surréalistes d’A. Breton, poésie surréaliste (Breton, Desnos, Eluard, Aragon).
5. A. Jarry – Ubu roi.
6. S. Beckett, En attendant Godot,
7. E. Ionesco, La cantatrice chauve.
8. M. Proust – Du côté de chez Swann.
9. J.-P. Sartre – La Nausée.
10. A. Camus – L’Etranger.
11. A. Robbe-Grillet, La Jalousie.
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