This course will trace the development of European literature. We will discuss aspects such as genre narrative technique, time, characterization, as well as the cultural and political implications of its development on the European consciousness. This course will pay particular attention to close contextual and thematic readings of several representative works of European literature. Readings may include authors such as: Balzac, Pirandello, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Mann, Gide, Proust, Kafka, Nabokov, Hess, and Camus.