Listed in: French, as FREN-333
Rosalina M. de la Carrera (Section 01)
The ideas of the French Enlightenment and the events of the French Revolution have been a source of fascination for twentieth-century writers from countries as diverse as the United States, Czechoslovakia, Italy, and Cuba. Which issues have provoked this dialogue across space and time? How do twentieth-century writers reinterpret those issues to fit a modern context? What are the ideological and literary concerns that resonate across the centuries? We will try to answer these and other questions by reading a group of twentieth-century works with and against a group of seminal eighteenth-century texts. Readings from the twentieth century will include Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees, Milan Kundera’s Jacques and his Master, Cathleen Schine’s Rameau’s Niece, and Alejo Carpentier’s Explosion in the Cathedral. Readings from the eighteenth century will include Voltaire’s Candide, Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and Diderot’s Jacques the Fatalist and Rameau’s Nephew. We will also view films by Patrice Leconte, Robert Bresson, and François Truffaut. Conducted in English.
Fall semester. Professor de la Carrera.
Section 01
M 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM CHAP 210
W 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM CHAP 210
F 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM CHAP 210
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candide | W.W. Norton, 2016, Third Edition | Voltaire | Comment: It is of the utmost importance that you buy the correct editions of books for this course. Please identify editions by ISBN numbers provided. | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Jacques the Fatalist | Penguin Classics, 1986 | Denis Diderot | Comment: | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Jacques and his Master | HarperCollins, 1986 | Milan Kundera | Comment: | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality | Bedford/St. Martin's, 2011 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Comment: | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| The Baron in the Trees | Mariner Books, 2017 | Italo Calvino | Comment: | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Rameau's Nephew | Open Book Publishers | Denis Diderot | Comment: Free PDF available at: https.//www.openbookpublishers.com/product/498 | TBD | ||
| Explosion in a Cathedral | University of Minnesota Press, 2001 | Alejo Carpentier | Comment: | Amherst Books | TBD | |
| Wittgenstein's Nephew | Vintage International, 2009 | Thomas Bernhard | Comment: | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.