FREN 10.08 Living in Paris/Habiter Paris

Living in Paris has generated an enormous amount of writing since the middle ages. This course will examine diverse narrative, poetic, propagandistic, memorial, historical, and anthropological texts that describe the difficulties and the joys of living in the French capital. Works by Perec, L’Estoile, Prévost, Baudelaire, Mercier, Sue, Balzac, Augé, Modiano, Colette, Barthes, Gary, Duras, and others.

Instructor

LaGuardia

Prerequisite

French 8 or permission of the individual instructor.

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:LIT; WCult:W

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