/lit/ - Where should I start with French literature? Prefe - Literature

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03/09/26(Mon)01:31:16 No.25129302

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Where should I start with French literature? Preferably novels. I've already read some Proust, Celine and Houellebecq.

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Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)02:09:58 No.25129333

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)02:09:58 No.25129333

marquis de sade

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Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)02:14:01 No.25129337

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)02:14:01 No.25129337

>>25129302
Huysmans
Bloy
Bernanos

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Anonymous
03/09/26(Mon)04:54:23 No.25129482

Anonymous 03/09/26(Mon)04:54:23 No.25129482

>>25129302
I've read over 100 French novels/novellas/collections of short stories. I've narrowed it down to 22 authors and here's what I found to be worth reading, arranged chronologically
>Gargantua and Pantagruel (Rabelais)
>Dangerous Liaisons (Laclos)
>Adolphe (Constant)
>The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
>The Black Sheep, Father Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, Lost Illusions, A Harlot High and Low, Cousin Bette, Cousin Pons (Balzac)
>The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
>The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Les Misérables (Hugo)
>Sylvie (Nerval)
>Madame Bovary, Salammbô, Bouvard and Pécuchet (Flaubert)
>L'Assommoir, The Masterpiece, The Beast Within, Germinal (Zola)
>The Gods Are Athirst (France)
>Là-bas (Huysmans)
>Short Stories (Maupassant)
>Bruges-la-Morte (Rodenbach)
>In Search of Lost Time (Proust)
>Hell, Under Fire (Barbusse)
>Thérèse Desqueyroux (Mauriac)
>Journey to the End of the Night (Céline)
>Tropisms, Golden Fruits (Sarraute)
>Memoirs of Hadrian (Yourcenar)
>Life: A User's Manual (Perec)
>Submission (Houellebecq)
Disregard everything else, especially crap like Sade; my curiosity got the better of me but it's genuinely not worth it.