Description: The novel as response to the vicissitudes of capitalism, colonialism and post-colonialism, globalization, the death of God and the subject, the end of Art and History: Proust, Celine, Sartre, Robbe-Grillet, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Marguerite Duras, Michel Houellebecq, Maryse Conde, Camara Laye, Maurice G. Dantec. Taught in English.