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
Lucky by Scott NelsonGRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS  by Scott  L. NelsonThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia PlathA Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf
Writers Journals and Diaries
81 books — 27 voters

Les Fiancés de l'hiver by Christelle DabosLe Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryD'un monde à l'autre by Pierre BotteroEllana by Pierre BotteroLes sortceliers by Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian
French Fantasy/Fantaisie française
128 books — 105 voters
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



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

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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