Université du Costa Rica
LM-2483 Histoire et Littérature II. 2ème test
partiel de littérature
Partie à faire home
Fernando León Alejandro Avelar
Partial examination of literature to "home".
Irene Nemirovsky
• Name of text: French Suite
• Page in the Anthology: 166
• Author name / e Irene Némirovsky
• Name the work from which is extracted from the text: French Suite, manuscript published in 2004 by his daughter, culminating in the Prix Renaudot.
• Date of implementation: 1942, Paris
• Idea (s) station (s) of the abstract: The author shows the most contradictory aspects of early German occupation. On the one hand, the Germans showed themselves as soldiers who help people abandoned. On the other hand, prohibitions are clear, the sound of the word "verboten" strikes the ear of the peasants who see displayed a series of prohibitions accompanied by the caption: "under pain of death." Finally, it is interesting to note that even in the case of the author, itself was sent to extermination camps (Auschwitz specifically to that) after having worn the yellow star.
• Items that have attracted your attention: First, being a woman writer (and a writer committed) which tells of abuse by soldiers reich. Second, his Polish and Jewish origin which made it subject to persecution. In another, it is interesting to note that this text was published only six decades later by his daughter. In the same way that it has won a literary award.
• Your personal opinion on the text: in general I like the historical literature is unfortunate that one can read a small excerpt, however, it would be interesting to read the complete works of Irene Nemirovsky.
Césaire
• Name of text: A Season in the Congo
• Page in the Anthology: 183
• Author name / e: Aime Cesaire
• Name of the work which is extracted as follows: A Season in the Congo, Act I, Scene I
• Date of implementation: 1966
• Idea (s) station (s) of the abstract: The work seems be critical to the colonization of Africa by European countries and in some way, a criticism also for the same Africans who have accepted the settlement in exchange for some amenities.
• Items that have attracted your attention: first, the formation of character, the barkers, indeed, he is a person who tells stories and lies ... but this character could also be criticized quite valid in the context of European domination. Second, that beer is a symbol of inaction from the same African, that way the beer is the acceptance of the domination of the Belgian Congo. Finally, in a paradoxical barker trying to make a call to freedom Congolese, by evoking the beer but not beer symbol of domination, that the Polar beer, which he said will allow the brotherhood Congolese.
• Your personal opinion on the text: I should confess that I expected a longer text Description of African landscapes, a bit like Leopold Sedar Senghor. But I liked this review to European domination. In addition, little is said of the Belgian occupation in Africa, it is always the invading French and English that are referred ignoring other countries like Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal and Belgium shared the African territory. In principle, I discovered this author inspired by Leopold Sedar Senghor and trying to deepen the concept of negritude and now it seems more interesting to study les auteurs francophones qui luttent quelque sorte contre l'on esclavage et la domination Coloniale. Je voudrais dans les textes well approfondir of cet auteur.
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Last edited: Monday, November 23, 2009
partiel de littérature 2ème test LM-2483
Fernando Avelar Alejandro León
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