L'INCROYABLE HISTOIRE DE LA LITTERATURE FRANÇAISE (B.-D.)

 

We recently started a French language literature collection at our library, for which I am the buyer. (We have a growing population of Haitians in Marl-borough, for whom French is their principal language after Creole.)

For my trip to Virginia this weekend, I checked out two books from the collection: Ni d'Éve ni d'Adam by Amélie Nothomb (which I'm halfway through) and this one. 

It starts out with Rabelais and ends with Marguerite Duras. I've just finished reading through the Sixteenth Century and have just started reading through the Seventeenth.

It's a genre I'm really rather fond of -- the informative graphic novel. Each section in it is a biography of an iconic French author with brief synopses of their major works. Many of them are very familiar from my French Lit courses, but others I confess I know only bu reputation. A truly useful primer on the subject: Grade: I like it and give it a B+.