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SUJET 1 Thématique : « Expression et construction de soi » Partie 1 : Synthèse du dossier, en anglais (16 points) Prenez connaissance de la thématique ci-dessus et du dossier composé des documents A, B, et C et répondez en anglais à la consigne suivante (500 mots environ) : Paying
SUJET 1 Thématique : « Expression et construction de soi » Partie 1 : Synthèse du dossier, en anglais (16 points) Prenez connaissance de la thématique ci-dessus et du dossier composé des documents A, B, et C et répondez en anglais à la consigne suivante (500 mots environ) : Paying particular attention to the characteristics of the documents, show how they interact to explore the purpose of reading. Partie 2 : Traduction, en français (4 points) Traduisez en français le passage suivant du document B (lignes 11 à 16) : Reading was my means, I thought, of escaping the narrowness of the world I lived in. But was it possible that my world had seemed narrow precisely because I was a voracious reader? After all, how can any reality match the worlds that exist only in books? Either way, the fact was that novels had done for me exactly what critics had anticipated when ‘romances’ first began to circulate widely, in the eighteenth century: they had created dreams and desires that were unsettling […]. 25-LLCERANME3 Page 2/9 Document A Edward HOPPER, Compartment C, Car 293, oil on canvas,1938 25-LLCERANME3 Page 3/9 Document B The narrator is a collector of rare books working between Brooklyn and Calcutta. He has been in conversation with Palash, a young Bengali migrant who is working in Italy. As he was speaking, a strange sense of recognition began to dawn on me: it was as though I were seeing myself in Palash. I remembered the restlessness of my own youth and how it had been fed by another, very powerful medium of dreams – novels, which I had read voraciously, especially savouring those that were about faraway places. I 5 thought of my teenage years and all the time I had spent hunting for cheap paperbacks in the alleys and back lanes of Calcutta (Aldo Manutius1 might well have had me in mind when he pioneered the publication of inexpensive books; I was addicted to them in much the same way that people of Palash’s generation were to their phones). Back in those days there were very few bookshops in Calcutta and their wares were 10 far beyond my reach: instead I had frequented libraries and second-hand bookshops. Reading was my means, I thought, of escaping the narrowness of the world I lived in. But was it possible that my world had seemed narrow precisely because