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
Les Fiancés de l'hiver by Christelle DabosLe Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryD'un monde à l'autre by Pierre BotteroEllana by Pierre BotteroLes sortceliers by Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian
French Fantasy/Fantaisie française
128 books — 105 voters
Dogra Magra by Kyūsaku YumenoLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireThe Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. DickNadja by André BretonMaldoror and Poems by Comte de Lautréamont
Books in 'Aku no Hana'
16 books — 3 voters

Papillon by Henri CharrièreMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertThe Red Collar by Jean-Christophe RufinLe Comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre DumasBonjour tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Authors Born in France
9 books — 3 voters
The Red and the Black by StendhalWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
In Search of Lost Tomes
92 books — 22 voters


Marcel Proust
He suffered greatly from being shut up among all these people whose stupidity and absurdities wounded him all the more cruelly since, being ignorant of his love, incapable, had they known of it, of taking any interest, or of doing more than smile at it as at some childish joke, or deplore it as an act of insanity, they made it appear to him in the aspect of a subjective state which existed for himself alone, whose reality there was nothing external to confirm; he suffered overwhelmingly, to the ...more
Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

Albert Camus
Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately! ...more
Albert Camus, The Fall

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