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
L'Affaire Alaska Sanders
My Husband
Mona's Eyes
Trois
Small Boat
Tata
Como bestias
L'Effondrement
Triste tigre
Changer : méthode
Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
L'heure des prédateurs
The Young Man
Le Mage du Kremlin
The Stranger
The Little Prince
Madame Bovary
Les Misérables
The Count of Monte Cristo
Candide
The Plague
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Three Musketeers (Trilogie des mousquetaires #1)
The Red and the Black
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Père Goriot
Nausea
The Fall
The Phantom of the Opera

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.
Bernardin De Saint-Pierre, Paul et Virginie

Gustave Flaubert
Desiderava al tempo stesso morire e vivere a Parigi.
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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