French Literature

French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French. Literature written by citizens of other nations such as Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, etc. is referred to as Francophone literature. As of 2006, French writers have been awarded more Nobel Prizes in Literature than novelists, poets and essayists of any other country. France itself ranks first in the list of Nobel Prizes in ...more

La muy catastrófica visita al zoo
My Husband
Tata
Mona's Eyes
Small Boat
Trois
Como bestias
La Dernière Allumette
Changer : Méthode
The Man Who Read Books
Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
Triste tigre
Le Mage du Kremlin
The Young Man
Numéro deux
The Stranger
The Little Prince
Madame Bovary
Les Misérables
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Plague
Candide
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Three Musketeers
The Red and the Black
Nausea
Père Goriot
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
The Fall (Vintage International)
The Phantom of the Opera
Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertLe Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryEugénie Grandet by Honoré de BalzacThe Fall by Albert CamusL'Étranger by Albert Camus
French Literature
51 books — 9 voters
Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-PontyMatter and Memory by Henri BergsonMythologies by Roland BarthesThe Imaginary by Jean-Paul SartreWe Have Only This Life to Live by Jean-Paul Sartre
Phun Phrench Filosophy Translations
107 books — 5 voters

L'Assommoir by Émile ZolaThe Ladies' Paradise by Émile ZolaGerminal by Émile ZolaNana by Émile ZolaLa Bête humaine by Émile Zola
Les Rougon-Macquart
20 books — 40 voters
Lucky by Scott NelsonGRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS  by Scott  L. NelsonThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia PlathA Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf
Writers Journals and Diaries
81 books — 27 voters

Doctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakThe Words by Jean-Paul SartreOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Lover by Marguerite Duras
Les 100 livres du Monde
100 books — 6 voters


Fatou SAMB
— Oui, dit la dame. Voyez-vous j’ai toujours eu peur de la vieillesse. Pour y échapper, j’ai vendu mon âme à un démon en échange d’avoir toute la beauté du monde. Je lui appartiens maintenant et à jamais. Je suis sa femme et aussi son esclave.
Fatou SAMB, Muneeb et Samiah: Fables et Contes de l'Afrique médiévale

Xavier de Maistre
چشم انداز طبیعت و تامل در آن، چه در یک قاب و چه در هزار و یک قاب، شاهراه لذت را در برابر خرد آدمی می گشاید. دیری نمی گذرد که پرنده ی خیال بر فراز این اقیانوس لذایذ بال می گسترد و بر شمار و شدت آن می افزاید. هزار احساس رنگارنگ در هم گره می خورند و با هم یکی می شوند و لذایذی نو پدید می آورند. رویای شکوه با تپش های عشق می آمیزد. عزت نفس دست به سوی نیکوکاری دراز می کند و نیکوکاری شانه به شانه ی عزت نفس گام بر می دارد. مالیخولیا گهگاه حریر مجلل خویش را بر سرمان می کشد و اشک هایمان را به لذت بدل می سا ...more
Xavier de Maistre, Voyage autour de ma chambre

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