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National French literature

Eating them out of house and home: parisitical consumption in Molière's Tartuffe

In Tartuffe, a comedy in five acts, Molièretells the story ofan attemptby an incorrigible hypocrite (named Tartuffe) to destroy the domestic...
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Read Félix Fénéon's Novels in Three Lines on Twitter

This is a fabulous find for all of you French literature fans who don't have enough time to sit down and read a Proust novel today. Get your...
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2009 winners of the Prix Renaudot and Prix Goncourt

On November 2, 2009 two more French authors entered the ranks of lauréats.Marie NDiaye won the Prix Goncourt for Trois femmes puissantes ...
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Pain and healing in Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur Telumée Miracle

Firmly inscribed in a matrilineal (knowledge passed down through generations of women) context, Pluie et vent deals with the pain, struggle, and...
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Narrative techniques in Françoise Ega's Lettres à une noire

Françoise Ega’s Lettres à une noire, written in 1978, reads like a realist, epistolary novel (in the style of Mariama Bâ...
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Maternal and status anxieties in Annie Ernaux's La honte and Une femme

Annie Ernaux’s novels are often grouped together with a number of other feminine narratives as identity literature, a genre in which the...
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Aime Cesaire's Discours sur le colonialisme (Discourse on Colonialism)

When I was in Paris during the summer of 2006, one of the events associated with the Bastille Day festivities was a theatrical rendition of C...
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She's back: Amélie Nothomb's Le Voyage d'hiver

No stranger to the rentrée littéraire, Amélie Nothomb made her presence known again this year with the release of Le Voyage d...
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The Proust Questionnaire: An exercise in vanity? Yes. Entertaining? Absolutely.

I have been a fan of Vanity Fair for years, admittedly in large part because of their “Proust Questionnaire” that has graced the last...
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Assia Djebar's vast oeuvre

Assia Djebar is the pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, an Algeriannovelist, translator and filmmaker. The majority of her literary corpus addresses...
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