Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of French Language and Literature
- Code
- BBI-FRA17-341F
- Title
- History of French literature 4 (20th c.)
- Usual semester
- Spring
- Published semester
- 2025/26/2
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- fr
- Learning outcomes
- I Subjects 1 Introduction. Methodological observations. Periodisation. Conditions of literature 2 From the crisis of verse to the new spirit and the new classic. Apollinaire, Valéry 3 From the crisis of the novel to its renewal. France, Rolland, Gide, Proust 4 The theatre of the Belle Époque and the Roaring Twenties 5 Dada and surrealism 6 Terror and mystery: from a return to myth to the theatre of cruelty Claudel, Cocteau, Giraudoux, Artaud 7 The novel and history (1930-1950) Commitment in question Céline, Aragon, Malraux 8 The novel and existentialist theatre. Sartre, Camus 9 A new theatre. Spectacles of language, languages of spectacle Ionesco, Beckett. Sarraute, Duras 10 The age of suspicion: the New Novel Sarraute, Butor, Robbe-Grillet 11 "Fellow travellers Beckett, Simon, Duras 12 Variations and continuities in poetry after the war Char, Michaux, Ponge 13 Literature as a game: the virtues of constraint L'Oulipo and Tel Quel. Queneau, Perec 14 - The return to experience and the quest for the novel. Tournier, Le Clézio
- Course content
- I Subjects 1 Introduction. Methodological observations. Periodisation. Conditions of literature 2 From the crisis of verse to the new spirit and the new classic. Apollinaire, Valéry 3 From the crisis of the novel to its renewal. France, Rolland, Gide, Proust 4 The theatre of the Belle Époque and the Roaring Twenties 5 Dada and surrealism 6 Terror and mystery: from a return to myth to the theatre of cruelty Claudel, Cocteau, Giraudoux, Artaud 7 The novel and history (1930-1950) Commitment in question Céline, Aragon, Malraux 8 The novel and existentialist theatre. Sartre, Camus 9 A new theatre. Spectacles of language, languages of spectacle Ionesco, Beckett. Sarraute, Duras 10 The age of suspicion: the New Novel Sarraute, Butor, Robbe-Grillet 11 "Fellow travellers Beckett, Simon, Duras 12 Variations and continuities in poetry after the war Char, Michaux, Ponge 13 Literature as a game: the virtues of constraint L'Oulipo and Tel Quel. Queneau, Perec 14 - The return to experience and the quest for the novel. Tournier, Le Clézio
- Assessment method
- Oral colloquium. Five-level assessment.
- Bibliography
- III Bibliographie d’orientation Horváth Krisztina, A 20. század. In :Maár Judit (szerk.) : A francia irodalom története, ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, Budapest, 2011. Michel Prigent (dir.) : Histoire de la France littéraire, PUF, collection quadrige, 2006, Volume III : Modernités Madeleine Borgomano et Élisabeth Ravoux Rallo : La littérature française du XXe siecle, Armand Colin, 1995 Jean-Yves Tadié (dir.) : La littérature française : dynamique et histoire II, Gallimard, 2007 Michele Touret (dir.) : Histoire de la littérature française du XXe siecle, t.. I-II., Presses Universitaires de Rennes 2003. Marie-Claire Bancquart et Pierre Cahné : Littérature française du XXe siecle, PUF, 1992