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What's the best book(/literary work) to have come out of France?

>> No.16976496
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16976496

>>16976449
Céline's entire oeuvre, also Stendhal's and Flaubert's work.

>> No.16976523

>>16976449
>novels
Flaubert or Proust
>poetry
Baudelaire or Mallarmé
>plays
Molière

>> No.16976640

>>16976449
The best ever literary work to come out of France is arguably In Search of Lost Time.

>> No.16976710

>>16976449
Mon journal desu

>> No.16976727

Racine

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>>16976710
can confirm

>> No.16976744

>>16976732
kek

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>>16976449
Fantômas

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>>16976449

>> No.16976991

What well known contemporary French author besides Houellebecq would you recommend? I guess I could just look up who won the latest Goncourt or something but I don't live in France or a French-speaking country so they're not easily available in our libraries here.

>> No.16977002

>>16976991
Bonnefoy and Jaccottet. If you're not a poetry-fag, Bonnefoy's essays are kino.

>> No.16977222

>>16976710
*Mon journal pêh
Pêh=pour être honnête= to be honest
Meme properly

>> No.16977252

>>16976523
>Baudelaire or Mallarmé
Incredible based
>Molière
Meh, I prefer Corneille, both his language and his actual plays. Haven't read any plays written after the 17th century though :(

>> No.16977266

>>16977222
merci senpai

>> No.16977267

>>16977002
je vous remercie for the recs, have to stop reading 100+ year books at some point desu

>> No.16977272

>>16977222
but desu doesn't mean t b h, it's japanese

>> No.16977309

>>16977252
>I prefer Corneille
A perfectly valid choice. But Molière has this genius of rhythm that I have never found elsewhere. There are some very good plays written after the 17th century but I too know them less. I like Beaumarchais, Claudel, Beckett and Ionesco.

>> No.16977322

>>16976991
>Houellebecq

isnt he a meme of the masses in France?

>> No.16977378

>>16976496
>Céline
This. His later books and pamphlets are the best things that Frenchies can offer.

>> No.16977382

>>16977309
>Claudel
>tfw his plays never really interested me but connaissances de l'est always gives me goosebumps

>> No.16977582

>>16977272
Yes but if we’re shitposting it in French then do it right

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>>16977266
De rien mon kop1

>> No.16977915

>>16977322
Yeah it's bizarre, he's both known for his meme polemics but also everyone reads him.