/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16615516]

what's the best french book?

[Anonymous No.16615528]

>>16615516
Fantômas
Trust me on this.

[Anonymous No.16615531]

>>16615516
Gargantua and Pantagruel

[Anonymous No.16615532]

>>16615516
Zola. Earth.

[Anonymous No.16615559]

>>16615528
Not this fantomas with louis de funes?

[Anonymous No.16616527]

[Anonymous No.16616548]

>>16616527
a nauseating book for sure

[Anonymous No.16616783]

>>16615559
That's a movie. Book is better.

[Anonymous No.16616828]

>>16615516
Why would they translate L'écume des jours as Froth on the daydream rather than The froth of days. Anyway imo the best French book is either Phèdre or Andromaque by Jean Racine. For a novel I would pick La chartreuse de Parme by Stendhal for overall competency and Salammbo by Flaubert for pure style.

[Anonymous No.16616890]

>>16616828
will check out all of these, thanks my dude
>>16616527
i prefer jean sol partre !

[Anonymous No.16616905]

>>16616828
>Salammbo by Flaubert for pure style
incroyablement basé anon
I'd go with La Recherche du temps perdu

[Anonymous No.16616913]

At least for the twentieth century.

[Anonymous No.16616921]

>>16616905
>La Recherche du temps perdu
ça a l'air hyper long anon, ça en vaut le coup?

[Anonymous No.16616928]

>>16616913
very good suggestion anon, i went to the marguerite yourcenar villa once

[Anonymous No.16616944]

>>16616921
c'est très long oui, mais c'est un livre comme on en lit rarement, un sommet de la littérature. Et comme disent nos cousins anglais c'est extrêmement comfy.
>>16616913
J'ai jamais lu de Yourcenar mais on m'en a dit beaucoup de bien. Pourquoi aimes-tu ce livre?

[Anonymous No.16616950]

>>16616944
You sound like a retarded pleb

[Anonymous No.16616957]

>>16615516
>The Gargantua/Pantagruel series by Rabelais
Great laughs, complete buffoonery.
>Phedre by Racine
The purest classical rule style ever made in any language, but French is especially suited for this type of writing. Plus it's misogynist as fuck hence /lit/ approved.
>Le Misanthrope by Moliere.
The best comedy, simple as.
>Les Oraisons Funebres by Bossuet
French Bishops that btfo everyone in a century that wasn't short on great orators. Inadvertently massacres large parts of subsequent philosophy by simultaneously being the most life affirming and death affirming writer.
>Les Pensees by Pascal
Extremely pure style somehow made even better by being unfinished notebook drafts. Also btfo hedonism, sensualism, atheism, legal positivism, moralfags, anti-moralfags and some others non-positions in a short book.
>Bagatelles pour un Massacre by Celine
The single greatest pamphlet ever written. Yep, better than Demosthenes and Cicero. Complete manic schizo ramblings against the Jews, the Anglos, the bourgeoisie, the anti-bourgeoisie, the Germans, the press, the military, etc.

[Anonymous No.16616959]

>>16615516

[Anonymous No.16616985]

CHAD

[Anonymous No.16616998]

>>16616950
pourquoi mon con?

[Anonymous No.16617007]

>>16616985
very talented man, a very limited number people of people can be a good writer and a good singer
>>16616998
pas le même anon mais ne l'écoute pas tu a l'air d'être très intelligent

[Anonymous No.16617020]

>>16617007
He was also an engineer of all things, certainly an unusual man.

[Anonymous No.16617036]

les miserables but only complete editions

[Anonymous No.16617038]

>>16616944
Essentiellement pour la prose; je l'ai lu quand j'avais ~17 ans et c'est vraiment le premier roman qui m'a fait comprendre la beauté de la langue en prose de manière viscérale. C'est une langue très classique (Yourcenar fût au contact du grec et du latin très jeune) mais d'un style exceptionnel.
Outre la prose, j'aime beaucoup le personnage d'Hadrien: c'est un homme à l'aune de la mort et le portrait de cet empereur stoïque mais amoureux, sage mais vieillissant est très touchant.
Enfin la justesse historique, attestée par la notice en fin d'ouvrage, est aussi intéressante: le texte est très documenté et les événements décrits concordent très bien avec ce que les historiens savent de la vie du réel empereur Hadrien.

[Anonymous No.16617050]

>>16617007
>pas le même anon mais ne l'écoute pas tu a l'air d'être très intelligent
merci anon
>>16617038
Effectivement ça a l'air très bien, je vais essayer de le lire dès que je suis venu à bout de ma liste de lecture du moment.

[Anonymous No.16617085]

not the best by far, but I recently read this and it is great

[Anonymous No.16617145]

Voyage au Bout de la Nuit

[Anonymous No.16617505]

The Iliad translated into French.

[Anonymous No.16617539]

Where the fuck do I buy french books? There always out of stock on amazon. (I'm in Canada btw)

[Anonymous No.16617543]

>>16616527
Not even Jean-Paul Sartre would've considered himself the best French writer.

[Anonymous No.16617571]

any answer other than la recherche is pure retardation

[Anonymous No.16617630]

>>16617539
Just use Amazon.fr. Or .co.uk or .de which surprisingly often have better prices for books outside the top normalfag picks.
They deliver worldwide. Buys in bulk of 4-5 books and the additional shipping costs are negligible.

>>16617571
>guys we have a language built to write mathematics
>better use it on effeminate ramblings, breaking the autistic order and analycity of its grammar
Sure thing.

[Anonymous No.16617674]

>>16616913
I'm reading this... terribly dull and thick with moralizing desu.

[Anonymous No.16617803]

Not one but seven

[Anonymous No.16617839]

>>16615528
What is it this person posting fantomas every where on /lit/?

[Anonymous No.16617841]

I wonder how many people saying Proust actually read all 7 books.He is great but not the best.There are huge sections that drag on and are repetitive, not to mention how everyone turns out to be gay the last few books.Great book but it does have flaws

[Anonymous No.16617884]

>>16617839
They say that if you post the name Fantômas enough times he will show up in your bathroom.

It started as an attempt to inspire someone beside me to read it, but now I just do it for fun.

[Anonymous No.16617963]

>>16617839
Fantomas is good enough to make capeshit readable.

[Anonymous No.16617986]

>>16617963
Everything is readable as long as you're not dyslexic.

[Anonymous No.16618094]

>>16617986
there's a difference between readable and enjoyable

[Anonymous No.16618097]

>>16615516
Great book but genuinely one of the few books that straight up untranslatable I read it in French when I was younger then I decided to pick up the English version and it wow it was terrible I dropped it after like the first few pages didn’t feel the same whatsoever

[Anonymous No.16618122]

>>16618097
the movie is great and it's one of the few books I can say that about it. it translates way better in a visual way

[Anonymous No.16618123]

>>16617674
>thick with moralizing
Oh, wow, a pseudo autobiography written by a powerful dying man to his adopted grandson and future emperor is heavy on moralizing? What a bizarrely unique observation, anon.

[Anonymous No.16618153]

>>16618122
Yeah I’ll admit the movie was actually pretty good. The thing with l’écume des jours is that most of the surrealist elements have kinda a double meaning behind them but it’s completely lost in the English version. The movie is good but the translation was just so bad to me. Never felt so disappointed.

[Anonymous No.16618155]

>>16618094
There is and there isn't, some dictionaries treat them as synonyms, but readable usually does imply the simple fact one can follow the text.
Fantômas was highly popular when it came out, famous names were mentioned among the readers, are you saying they all had shit taste?

[Anonymous No.16618277]

>>16617020
He shared a balcony with Jacques Prevert. Both were satrapes of the College de 'pataphysique (and Prevert's dog too). I wish I could see how that balcony looked like at the time.