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By : Alice Kaplan
Book Synopsis :
Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical,?French Lessons?is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. Kaplan begins with a distinctly American quest for an imaginary France of the intelligence. But soon her infatuation with all things French comes up against the dark, unimagined recesses of French political and cultural life.The daughter of a Jewish lawyer who prosecuted Nazi war criminals at Nuremburg, Kaplan grew up in the 1960s in the Midwest. After her father's death when she was seven, French became her way of "leaving home" and finding herself in another language and culture. In spare, midwestern prose, by turns intimate and wry, Kaplan describes how, as a student in a Swiss boarding school and later in a junior year abroad in Bordeaux, she passionately sought the French "r," attentively honed her accent, and learned the .
Book Detail :
Tittle : French Lessons: A Memoir
Author : Alice Kaplan
Pages : 232 pages
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Language :
ISBN-10 : 022656455X
ISBN-13 : 9780226564555
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