A Journey Through French Literature

Introduction

For a long time, I did not notice how many books on my shelves were by French writers from different periods.

Hugo, Flaubert, Proust, Beauvoir, Camus, Duras, Annie Ernaux… Perhaps you too have read widely within French literature without thinking of it as a tradition: novels of love and growing up, philosophical accounts of freedom and choice, and stories whose ideas are often quoted.

Choose a book or a French writer you would like to discuss, and join us on Friday for a journey through French literature.

Here is a collection of Hugo’s sketches bought at his former home in Paris. He could draw remarkably well.