FRE 41400 French Autobiography

(GE-CrsClt) This course will examine autobiography as a modern genre, slippery as that genre may be. We will examine the balance of reality and fiction within autobiography. Students will analyze the difficulties autobiographers encounter as they attempt to reconstruct the past and recreate their past selves through the text. Autobiographies studied may include those of Sartre, de Beauvoir, Sarraute, Duras, Ernaux, and others. Taught in French.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENG 17000; a grade of C or better in FRE 31100 or FRE 31200 or permission of dean.

Offered

Intermittently.