News and Events

Grenoble Informational Meeting

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 4:30 in K318

All students interested in finding out more information on Swarthmore's Program in Grenoble, France are invited to join members of the French section on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 4:30 PM in Kohlberg 318.

FRENCH LANGUAGE TABLE

Fall 2008

Mondays at 5:30 p.m. in Sharples, Rm. 6

GRENOBLE PROGRAM

APPLICATION INFORMATION

  • For information on the Grenoble Program, contact Eleonore Baginski, Administrative Coordinator email, or 610-328-8143.

"Between The Lines: Reading and Translating French Multicultural Fiction"

Monday 19 November 2007 Kohlberg 328

Professor Marjorie Salvodon, Suffolk University

A discussion of the process of translation and the art of close reading as it relates to multiple identities in a best-selling contemporary French novel, “Garcon manqué” by Nina Bouraoui.

 

Rachid Boudjedra Lecture on April 27, 2007 in K116

Arabic and French Lecture

Rachid Boudjedra will have a discussion at 3:00 PM in Arabic on April 27th in K116 on the Relationship Between His Writings in French and Arabic.  Then at
4:00 PM he will have a talk in French on The Influence of Faulkner in Maghrebian Literature.

Rachid Boudjedra (b. 1941) is a prolific and revolutionary Algerian writer who has published numerous poems, essays and novels.   Before 1982, these were generally in French, but since then he has concentrated on writing in Arabic.  

He was born in Aïn Beïda, Algeria, where he was active in the independence movement.  He received his degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne, where he did research on Céline.  Upon receiving his degree, he returned to Algeria to teach at Blida, but left after Houari Boumédiene seized power.  He lived in France from 1969 till 1972, and then in Rabat, Morocco until 1975.

Boudjedra’s fiction is written in a difficult, complex style, reminiscent of Faulkner or García Márquez in its intricacy. La Répudiation (1969) brought him sudden attention, both for the strength with which he challenged traditional Muslim culture in Algeria and for the strong reaction against him.

He also wrote scripts for the cinema including Lakhdar Hamina's Chronique des Années de Braise, one of the classics of Algerian cinema.

The event will take place, on Friday, April 27, at 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. in
Kohlberg 116.