Antoine Compagnon's guest lecture at Tallinn University
As part of its Francophonie Month program, the French Institute of Estonia has the honor to welcome in Estonia Mr. Antoine Compagnon, scholar, author, literary critic, and member of Académie française. He will give a lecture at Tallinn University on Tuesday, March 19.
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iCal calendarAntoine Compagnon will give a lecture on "Literature and Innovation" on Tuesday, March 19 from 16:15 to 17:45 at Tallinn University in room M-218.
The lecture is held in English.
Antoine Compagnon, born in 1950 in Brussels, is Professor Emeritus of French Literature at Collège de France (2005-2021) and Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University since 1985. Among other authors, he has studied thoroughly Montaigne, Proust and Baudelaire.
His book Les Antimodernes, de Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes won in 2005 the Pierre-Georges Castex Prize of Académie des sciences morales et politiques, and in 2006, the Critics’ Prize of Académie française. In 2011, he received the Claude Lévi-Strauss Prize of Académie des sciences morales et politiques. In 2018, Académie française awarded him with the Guizot Prize for Les Chiffonniers de Paris.
In 2022, he was elected to Académie française.
about Antoine Compagnon and his works.