Join us for a one hour introduction to Guy de Maupassant !

Dr. Céline Brossillon is an Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature; Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies but also Coordinator in Comparative and Global Literatures, at Ursinus College, Pennsylvania. She holds a Doctorate in nineteenth-century French literature from Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle in France.

She will introduce her work about  Solitude in Maupassant and will also suggest the reading or re-reading of 2 or 3 short stories in order to engage with the attendees.

In a further session later in the year she will examine :  the transition from sought-after solitude to destructive isolation among singles in Maupassant’s works.

Dr. Celine Brossillon is the Author of Le Taureau triste: La Solitude du célibataire de Maupassant (CNRS, 2021), Co-editor of L’Amour des Morts: Love with Ghosts, Vampires and Other Dead(ly) Beings in the Francophone Nineteenth Century (French Forum, 47.1, Spring 2022) and Co-editor of Écrire le huis clos au XIXe siècle(Classiques Garnier, 2024)

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Day: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025

Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Alliance Française de Philadelphie, 1420 Walnut St, Suite 700, Philadelphia, PA 19102
Language: French,  English
Fee: $10