This course addresses the development of prose fiction in French literature during the 19th and 20th centuries. Masterpieces of the French novel and stories from such authors as Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Gide, Camus and Duras will serve as focus of the course with some attention to literary essays and popular fiction of the same period and the traditions that informed them. Prerequisite: FREN 350 or permission of instructor. (Group III)