| Q. | Which of these French Novels are AMAZING in your opinion? | Related Search:
Books & Authors | | | I'm trying to expand into French Fiction more. Which of these do you recommend. I've already read a few of them.
Madame de Lafayette - La Princesse de Clèves
Abbé Prévost - Manon Lescaut
Voltaire - Candide
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse
Denis Diderot - Jacques le fataliste (Jacques the Fatalist)
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liaisons dangereuses
François-René de Chateaubriand - Atala, René
Benjamin Constant - Adolphe
Stendhal - Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black), La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma)
Honoré de Balzac - La Comédie humaine ("The Human Comedy", a novel cycle which includes Père Goriot, Lost Illusions, and Eugénie Grandet)
Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers
Victor Hugo - Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), Les Misérables
Théophile Gautier - Mademoiselle de Maupin
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary, Salammbô, L'Éducation sentimentale (Sentimental Education)
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt - Germinie Lacerteux
Guy de Maupassant - Bel Ami, La Parure (The Necklace), other short stories
Émile Zola - Thérèse Raquin, Les Rougon-Macquart (a novel cycle which includes L'Assommoir, Nana and Germinal)
André Gide - Les Faux-monnayeurs (The Counterfeiters), The Immoralist
Marcel Proust - À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time)
André Breton - Nadja
Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night)
Colette - Gigi
Jean Genet - Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs
Albert Camus - L'Étranger (The Stranger)
Michel Butor - La Modification
Marguerite Yourcenar - Mémoires d'Hadrien
Alain Robbe-Grillet - Dans le labyrinthe
Georges Perec - La vie mode d'emploi
Robert Pinget - Passacaille
Jean-Paul Sartre - L´Âge de Raison (The Age of Reason)
Francoise Sagan - "Bonjour Tristesse," (Hello Sadness) 1954 awarded Prix de Critiques
| | A. | ALL of them. Good grief. With the possible exception of "Bonjour Tristesse," which is superficial and silly.
I'm very fond of Zola, and I'd add "L'oeuvre" to your list, inspired by his friendship from childhood with the artist Paul Cezanne. I love Yourcenar's "Memoires d'Hadrien," Stendhal's "Le Rouge et le Noir," and I enjoyed "Candide" and "Julie: ou la Nouvelle Heloise."
Dumas is just plain fun; Hugo should probably be read, though he's not my favorite.
"Madame Bovary" is a must, and Proust, if you can get past "Swann's Way," though most people can't. And yes, "La Princesse de Cleves" and "Manon Lescaut."
Otherwise, I wouldn't insist on anything, though the later material on your list should be investigated, bien sur. | | | |
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