Studies in 20th Century French Prose

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TAUGHT IN FRENCH: An examination of the new directions taken by French fiction in light of the development of the notions of modernism and post-modernism. Representative texts ranging from the narrative innovations of Proust through the Existential writing of Camus and Sartre, to the rise of the 'Nouveau roman' of Duras and Robbe-Grillet, to recent contributions by Perec and Toussaint.