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The giants of French literature : Balzac, Flaubert, Proust, and Camus

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    Narrator: Katherine L. Elkins
    Publisher:
    Recorded Books, 2011
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Elkins, Katherine L.
    Contributor: Recorded Books, LLC.
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
    ,
    Copyrighted
    2010
    Summary:

    Kenyon College professor Katherine Elkins details the lives and works of the premier French writers of the last two centuries.

    Contents:
    • Themes and influence
    • Honoré de Balzac: life and early work
    • Honoré de Balzac: The wild ass's skin and Père Goriot
    • Honoré de Balzac: The human comedy
    • Flaubert: life and times
    • Flaubert's Madame Bovary
    • Flaubert's Sentimental education
    • Proust: life and work
    • Proust: In search of lost time, part one
    • Proust: In search of lost time, part two
    • Camus: life and work
    • Camus's The stranger and The myth of Sisyphus
    • Camus's The plague, The fall, and The first man
    • Legacy and questions raised.
    Genre:
    Literary arts
    Subject(s): Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 | Camus, Albert, 1913-1960 | Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 | French literature | Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD, [Prince Frederick, Md.], Recorded Books, [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781456114565