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
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
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
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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
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



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

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

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