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
L'Assommoir by Émile ZolaThe Ladies' Paradise by Émile ZolaGerminal by Émile ZolaNana by Émile ZolaLa Bête humaine by Émile Zola
Les Rougon-Macquart
20 books — 40 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia PlathA Writer's Diary by Virginia WoolfA Writer's Diary 1873-1881 by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6 by Anaïs Nin
Writers Journals and Diaries
79 books — 17 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 — 5 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

Madame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertLe Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryEugénie Grandet by Honoré de BalzacThe Fall by Albert CamusL'Étranger by Albert Camus
French Literature
51 books — 9 voters


Jean-Paul Sartre
If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing. ...more
Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

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

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