Saturday, November 18, 2024
11am PST / 12pm MST / 1pm CST / 2pm EST
Federation of Alliances Françaises USA and Fereshteh Priou from The Proust Society of Greenwich
In English

In commemoration of Proust on the anniversary of his death, November 18, we welcome Antoine Compagnon of the Académie française, who will be speaking with Fereshteh Priou from the Proust Society of Greenwich about two greats of French literature, Proust and Colette.

Antoine Compagnon is a Professor Emeritus of French Literature at Collège de France and the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Proust entre deux siècles (Seuil, 1989) and Un été avec Colette (Équateurs / France Inter, 2022).

Please visit the Federation of AF USA’s national YouTube channel for recordings of previous events, including several on the subject of Proust.

This event will be on Zoom and is free for all Alliance Française members in the U.S., AATF members, and invited guests of the presenters or publicists. Non-members or persons who have no AF chapter nearby can purchase tickets ($10). Please click here to register.