/lit/ - Literature

>>6439432

(I don't really understand why people are recommending Les Edition de Minuit. Ok, it's an historically important publishing house, but it's relatively small and has been on the verge of bankruptcy for 10 years now.)

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New works: Gallimard and Grasset. Top winners of the Goncourt Prize (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galligrasseuil)), and most important economically speaking, historically speaking, and quality-wise. These are the books you see when entering a library.

Old works in paperback: Folio, J'ai Lu, Le Livre de Poche, Garnier Flammarion. All the classics from Plato to Houellebecq are in there, in somewhat ok quality.

Old works in luxury editions: La Collection de la Pléiade

2. amazon.co.uk has a pretty good list. Otherwise, go directly to the publishing house site.

3. Good list. I'd add Les Mains Sales, by Sartre.

4. Wordreference.com

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