French Lessons A Memoir

Name: French Lessons A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780226424194

ISBN-10: 0226424197

ISBN-13: 9780226424194

Edition: 1993

Authors: Alice Kaplan

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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…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English




Before I Knew French


First Words


The Last Summer at Wildhurst Road


Loss Leaving



Getting It Boarding School in Switzerland


Spring Break in France Coming Home



Getting It Right


Andreacute; Micheline


Ceacute;line



Revisions In Search of the French ""R"" Tenses


Guy, de Man, and Me


The Trouble with Edna


The Interview


Returning Home


Afterwards


Note on the Text


Acknowledgment