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stendhal, moliere, balzac, proust, racine, etc. what're some of the top top works?

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>>10628710

>> No.10628890

Maaahah, the French... champagne has always been celebrated fhor its excellence

>> No.10628936

>>10628710
hugo- les mis
dumas- count of monte christo
celine- journey

>> No.10628944

>>10628771
I need to do one of these for italian

>> No.10628998

>Victor Hugo
>Rimbaud
>Rabelais
>Céline
>Flaubert
>Racine

>> No.10629023

>>10628944
>1. Dante
>2. Virgil
>3. Tasso
>4. uuuh, Calvino?
your list

>> No.10629038

>>10629023
Why there's always someone trying to bait me whenever I mention italian lit? Are you guys trying to make easy (You)s because you know we're prone to sperging out?

>> No.10629078

>>10629038
Kek, it's the same with spanish lit. Everyone thinks it's just Cervantes and that's all. Poeple don't know about good writers outside the familiar names and the memes.

>> No.10629135

>>10629078
Are you >implying there are any others on the level of anywhere close to >>10628771 >>10628998 from Spain?

>> No.10629921

>>10628710
L'étranger from Camus is one of the best books of the 20th century.
>prove me wrong
>pro-tip you can't

>> No.10629930

>>10628710
Don't forget Zola, although I feel his works need to be taken as a whole.

>> No.10629931

>>10629921
who disagrees with that

>> No.10630102

>>10629921
>Joyce
>Proust
>Beckett
>Pynchon
>Borges
>Nabokov
>Bulgakov
>Sabato
>Faulkner
>Hemingway
>the list goes on
all of these are ahead of Camus