Presented by the UCSB Department of French & Italian Monday, May 19 / 4:00 P.M. / Free McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Pierre-Edmond Robert, Professor of French Literature, University of Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle, is the author of Les Saisons du Paradis (1992), Rien que des étoiles (1992), Un siècle et demi de bonheur (1990), Port Shelby (1990), Olympes (1989), and Version originale (1988). His essays on Marcel Proust and Eugène Dabit have garnered critical praise. He is one of the editors of Marcel Proust's works in the prestigious collection "La Pléiade" and the editor of some of Louis-Ferdinand Céline's correspondence. In addition, he is finally a translator of American fiction into French, particularly of some of the novels of Mavis Gallant. This event is cosponsored by the UCSB Department of French & Italian, College of Creative Studies, Comparative Literature Program, Department of German, Slavic and Semitic, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of French and Italian. Top of Page <<Back