Our venture in 20th century prose will focus primarily in the exploration of its hermeneutical dynamics. The deeper comprehension of individual texts on the one hand and the evaluation of the main elements that constitute the whole body of a writers’ work on the other, will tend to raise an array of different issues, of a wider, cultural order: the relation between literature and sociopolitical condition, between literature and ideology, literature and other types of art, the function of literature as a privileged vehicle for the expression of desire, the dialogic imagination of literature and in particular of prose writing will be the main axes of our approach. Without leaving aside strictly grammatological issues such as literary generations, literary genres or aesthetic movements, the inner core of this course will mainly consist in its interdisciplinarity. In the same time it aims to familiarize the audience with various tools and critical methods that can help, reinforce and extend textual analysis, not only the literary one. In order to achieve this program, our analysis won’t be limited in the literary canon. It will also cover minor texts, as well as others that stand “on a slight angle” towards what is traditionally considered as literary (such as essay, biography, journalism etc) in an attempt to highlight the modern blurring between different modes of writing. This will hopefully offer a view to contemporary prose, and most probably to all the previous century leaves for the current one.