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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde%27s_100_Books_of_the_Century

Thoughts on that list?

>> No.1213609

Post the uncensored version or i kill you

>> No.1213608

A lot of good books on the list, but "To Kill a Mockingbird" isn't even ranked. I don't think very highly of this list.

>> No.1213622

>Stranger is in first place
>In Remembrance of things past is second
>Le Petit Prince is fourth
>Obvious french bias is obvious

>> No.1213629

>>1213622
As if American/British bias aren't obvious in similar list from these countries.

>> No.1213641

Brave New World is higher than 1984.

/lit/, u mad?

>> No.1213643

>>1213609
This is a worksafe board
>>1213622
>The first fifty works on the list were the subject of an essay by Frédéric Beigbeder, The Last Inventory Before Liquidation, in which he notably drew attention to its French-centred character

Oh God tripfags...
Read the article

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1213649

>Ficciones at 79
>The Name of the Rose at 14
>mon visage quand

>> No.1213650

>Lord of the Rings rated higher than Borges

>> No.1213652
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1213652

>>1213649
>>1213650
Borgesmind

>> No.1213654

>>1213643
Well if your so afraid of getting b& then either
a. post it under a spoiler
b. post it on /s/ or /b/ or something adn link to it

>> No.1213657

>>1213654
You can get banned for abusing the Spoiler Image option too

>> No.1213661

It's a poll of 17000 random French people who were given a list of 200 books and asked, "Which of these was most memorable?"

Most people hadn't read all 200. Most probably hadn't even read 20 of these books. The list was culled to 100 then sorted by popularity.

This is a "List of Books Whose Titles Are Recognizable to Random French People" not a "List of Best Books, According to France"

>> No.1213664

>>1213657
>getting banned
>on 4chan
You must be new here.

>> No.1213659

>#13 Being and Nothingness

Surely this is a troll list...the tier list that gets posted on /lit/ all the time is better than this.

>> No.1213665

>>1213657

There are no mods here, ever. Nobody reads the reports, nobody checks the board. EVER.

>> No.1213666

>>1213657
>implying anyone has been banned on /lit/, ever

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>>1213643
>>1213643

>tripfags
>plural
>only one tripfriend had previously posted in the thread

nigga u blind?

>> No.1213669

>>1213666
Stagolle

>> No.1213675

>>1213669
I don't think he was banned (at least I hope not)

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1214105

>Asterix the Gaul on list
>I loved Asterix but still
>Asterix above Lolita, The Great Gatsby, shit ton of other great books
>mfw

>> No.1214119

It's better than most if not all British and American lists.

That's for sure.

The Master and Margarita is way too low though.

>> No.1214141

This isn't a tier list or a ranking list you morons. Read the goddamn article. It was a title popularity contest. Every French person can recite the first sentence to Swann's Way. Every French person was read Le Petit Prince as a child. Bla bla bla. Books are ranked high because people recognize the name, not because Le Monde thought they were better.

>> No.1214157

>Asterix the Gaul

Oh wow, that's a blast from the past

>> No.1214177

>>1214105

I don't think you quite understand the cultural importance of Asterix in France.

>> No.1214193

Nice list, but it's from le monde...you can see how Francocentric is the list.

For example: Foucault, but not Kuhn (and they chose a book pretty similar to Kuhn)