A fictionalized account of the author's time teaching French language and literature in a racially and lingustically mixed middle school in Paris.
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Contemporary, prestige, earnest and classical in form.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- François Bégaudeau
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 270
- Publisher
- Verticales, Verticales - Gallimard
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- French
- ISBN
- 9782070776917
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