French literature (19th century) I

Syllabus

Works to be read and analysed¨

I. Aspects of Romanticism

Alfred de Musset, La Confession d'un enfant du siècle

Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir

Chateaubriand, René

Alfred de Lamartine, Les Méditations

Victor Hugo, Les Orientales

II. Romantic drama

The quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns on the occasion of the performance of Hernani by V. Hugo in 1830

Alfred de Musset - Lorenzaccio

III. The poet and the poetry

Victor Hugo, Les rayons et les ombres

Alfred de Vigny, disillusion and solitude of the spirit

IV. Between Romanticism and Realism

Victor Hugo, L'Homme qui rit

Honoré de Balzac, Les Chouanes

Annotation

The French literature of the second half of the 19th century. Romanticism. Realism. Prominent writers and poets.

Contemporary context.