Used book – Madness in Fantastic Short Stories, Maïtena Maltaverne, Guy de Maupassant

Another classic idea!

La Chevelure (The Hair), Lui ? (He?), Qui sait ? (Who Knows?) and La Nuit (The Night). Four unsettling short stories where fantasy and madness blur reality.

Educational objectives:

- A study of the shift from realism to fantasy.

- An analysis of character subjectivity.

- An exploration of the links between literature and madness since antiquity, extended through iconography (Courbet, Magritte, Brassaï, Little Nemo...).

Curriculum theme related to the title:

Grade 8 - Fiction to question reality. In addition: Poe's The Black Cat and Maupassant's Apparition.

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