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
Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Père Goriot
The Fall (Vintage International)
The Phantom of the Opera
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
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

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


John Leonard
Isn't post-modernism really one big cover-up for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate Albert Camus? ...more
John Leonard

Jean Cocteau
Poetry is a machine that manufactures love. Its other virtues escape me.
Jean Cocteau, Art & Faith

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