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
Mona's Eyes
My Husband
Ce que je sais de toi
Como bestias
Small Boat
Trois
Tata
The Young Man
Le Mage du Kremlin
Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
Triste tigre
Veiller sur elle
L'Effondrement
Changer : méthode
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
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

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

Mouloud Benzadi
Victor Hugo continues to be popular today not because of his multivolume works, which people may never have time or patience to read, but rather because of his unique experiences, his political activities and his immense influence on French history.
Mouloud Benzadi

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