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
Wenken voor jonge letterkundigen by Charles BaudelaireBodembestemming by Jean EchenozHet vervloekte ras by Marcel ProustOok u, meneer Voltaire - zes brieven by Marie Anne de Vichy-ChamrondEen jachtpartij by Alain Fleischer
Perlouses
16 books — 1 voter

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


Stendhal
Si Julián hubiera empleado en examinar lo que pasaba en el salón el tiempo que ponía en exagerar la belleza de Matilde o en apasionarse pensando en la altivez natural de su familia, a la que ella olvidaba por él, hubiera comprendido en qué consistía su poder sobre todo el que la rodeaba. - Capítulo XI
Stendhal, The Red and the Black

Victor Hugo
He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration.
Victor Hugo

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