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Just finished Les Miserables and loved it. My first read of Fench lit. Can any anons recommend other great french novels or post a chart? Cheers.

>> No.14290271

Did you read it in French or b*rgerspeak?

>> No.14290285

>>14290271
Canuckhoot (Mandarin variety).

>> No.14290722

>>14290264
Read count of monte or in search of lost time.

>> No.14290751

French literature is the best my nigga.

>> No.14290783

>>14290722
thanks my buddy
>>14290751
im one novel in and its my focus now

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>>14290264
Notre-Dame de Paris - Hugo
Bel Ami - Maupassant
Le Horla - Maupassant
Three Musketeers - Dumas

>> No.14290982

Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe by Chateaubriand
He was one of the best French authors of the Napoleonic age and his Memoirs are the only works of his that have received a partial translation into English

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>>14290264

>> No.14290996

>>14290982
Great rec, Chateaubriand's prose is patrician as fuck.

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14291013

Read La Rochefoucauld and Pascal for some comfy time

>> No.14291575

Bouvard et Pécuchet > anything

>> No.14291717

>>14290994
saving this, the few i know are actually good so it's promising

>> No.14293051

bump

>> No.14293594

>>14290264
Red and Black. 400 pages of pure entertainment.

>> No.14293934

>>14290970
Le Horla is good. Read L'Amant by Duras.

>> No.14293980

>>14290994
where is Genet? Gide? Perec? Robbe-Grillet? Nerval?

>> No.14295041

bump

>> No.14295170

Baudelaire's essays

>> No.14295251

>>14290264
L'homme qui Rit, also by Victor Hugo
Basically the Joker but 70 years earlier in the concept