An excerpt from the novel last June angry days (Gallimard) Recommended by Sylvie Germain to French BA candidates. A text “too hard” should be analyzed according to some students who went wild on social networks to the point of threatening the novelist with death.
LE FIGARO. – Some high school students considered that your text (fell in the general French baccalaureate) and the text of Leila Slimani (professional baccalaureate): “too hard”. Were they there?
Sylvie GERMAN. – I remain skeptical, these texts do not present any difficulties, there is nothing hermetic about them. Should we now offer excerpts from children’s books at the undergraduate level? And then, in the bachelor of philosophy, what will they do in front of the text of Plato, Kant or Sartre? Should we give up because some students are falling? How far will we go in the institution, the mediocrity?
It would be better to give students an early taste and intelligence for reading, to awaken their curiosity and interest in vocabulary…
Source: Le Figaro
