Civil Services Mains exam syllabus: French
Civil Services Mains exam syllabus: French
The complete syllabus of French for the UPSC Civil Services Mains exam.

(Answers must be written in French except where the questions requires translation from French to English)

Paper I

Section A

Main trends in French Literature

Classicism

Romanticism

Realism

Art in France

Romanticism

Realism

Impressionism

The Vth Republic

De Gaulle and the Vth Republique

May 1968

Pompidou

Giscard d' Estaing

Mitterrand

Chirac

Translation: French to English (2 passages of socio-politico-economic nature of 200 words each)

Section B

Main trends in French Literature

Symbolism

Surrealism

Theatre of the Absurd

Art in French

Surrealism

Cubism

Abstract Painting

The Vth Republic

Parts politiques en France

Place et rôle du Président de la Ve Republique

Le gouvernement

Le Parlement

Le Senat

Translation: English to French (2 passages of socio-politico-economic nature of 200 words each)

Paper II

Section A

This paper will require an in-depth reading of the following texts and the questions will be designed to test the candidate’s critical ability.

XVIIth Century

Corneille: Le Cid

Racine: Andromaque

Moliere: L’Avare

XVIIIth Century

Beaumarchais: Le Mariage de Figaro

XIXth Century

Lamartine: Le lac Le Vallon

Victor Hugo: La Conscience. Elle Avait Pris Ce Pli..... Demain, Dés L' Aube

Victor Hugo : Hernani

Musset: Souvenir. La Nuit de Decembre

Marimee: Colomba

Balzac: Eugenie Grandet

Flaubert: Madame Bovary

Baudelaire: L’Invitation au Voyage, Recueillement. L’Albatros.

Rimbaud: Le Dormeur du Val

Verlaine: Chanson d’Automne, Mon Reve Familier, II Pleure Dans mon Coeur...

Section B

XXth Century

Appolinaire: Nuit Rhenane, Le Pont Mirabeau

Jacques Prevert: Pour Faire Le Portrait d’Un Oiseau, Barbara.

Paul Eluard: Liberte

Paul Valery: Les Pas, La Fileuse

Andre Gide: La Symphonie pastorale

Camus: L’Etranger

Sartre: Les Mains Sales

Lonesco: Rhinoceros

Francophonie

Gerard Besette: Le Libraire

Ananda Devi: Le Voile de Draupadi

Cheikh Hamidou: L’Aventure -- Kane Ambigiüe

Abdellatif Laabi: Poemes en prose

L’Arbre a poemes (L’Etreinte du Monde)

Les Reves viennent mourir sur la page (L’Etreinte du Monde)

Essay of general nature on a contemporary theme

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