NEW!UN JOUR, UN LIVRE CERCLE DE LECTURE

Join our Cercle de lecture to share your pleasure of reading in French, to improve

your French language skills and to discuss French literary works in a variety of genres. Every last Friday of a session of class, just before French Friday social event, meet a teacher, an author, or a staff member eager to share about a novel she/he particularly likes and that you have read prior to attending.

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4 January - 27 FebruaryWednesday / 10.00-12.00pm

4 January - 27 FebruaryWednesday / 7.00-9.00pm

$ 2 9 5 ( G S T i n c l u d e d ) *

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Friday 22 April / 6.00-7.30pm F R E E F O R M E M B E R S (AF Students and AF members)

Advanced B1, Superior B2 and Expert C1 Levels

book @ S$15 (available online on Alliance française extranet or from AF bookshop)

Register in person @ the reception desk(limited to 12 participants)

Conductor: Claire-Lise Dautry, Executive Director of Alliance française de Singapour

NOUVELLES ORIENTALES MARGUERITE YOURCENAR

The first edition of our Cercle de lecture is dedicated to “Nouvelles Orientales” written by the first female writer elected at the Académie française, Marguerite Yourcenar - one of the greatest French writer of the second half of the 20th century. The focus will be on the first short story of the book: Comment Wang-Fô fut sauvé.

“Nouvelles Orientales” is a 1938 short stories collection. The 10 stories share a self-consciously mythological form; some are based on pre-existing myths and legends, while some are new, taking the reader from China to Greece, and from the Balkans to Japan. Marguerite Yourcenar has the extraordinary talent to express much with a minimum of words. The stories are short but deep and make the reader feel the power of words.

“J'ai choisi cette œuvre d'abord parce qu'elle célèbre le pouvoir de l'imagination, ensuite parce qu'elle donne une approche de l'Asie de façon extraordinairement sensible, qui me touche beaucoup.” Claire-Lise Dautry