Conférence : Traverser le XXème siècle avec Agatha Christie, par Jeanne Bem, Professeur des universités.

Everyone has read one or other of Agatha Christie's 66 novels, not counting the collections of short stories. Everyone knows Hercule Poirot. But you have to read the gripping autobiography she wrote between the ages of 60 and 75 to realise the extent to which her fiction is based on her own experience, and how it incorporates the major events of the 20th century. This talk, in which I will be comparing four of her detective and spy novels with her Autobiography, will reveal a modern, engaging woman who is both British and cosmopolitan, conformist and cheeky.
The texts by A. Christie will be read by students from the drama club at the Lycée Bonaparte in Autun.

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