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Welcome to the official thread for French /lit/erature. Feel free to contribute with reviews on your favourite authors, books, fragments, own works (so we can criticize them :), new editions or publications, and the like...

>> No.17335243
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I want to work on my French. Which one of these should I get?

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>> No.17335287

>>17335243
Je recommande Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet et peut-etre Camus. Ton niveau de francais est équivalent à quoi, B1-B2 ?

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>> No.17335308

>>17335293
Good chart but Le Roman de Fauvel is missing

>> No.17335375

I'd like to know your favorite French non-fiction authors, ideally not the most popular since I've read several already

>> No.17335434

How do we meme Rebatet into relevancy?

>> No.17335493

>>17334718
I love Jules Verne. His books featured heavily in my childhood (as translations, but still). Is there value in trying to read the original French? I am considering learning the language, and that would be a major reason why. (Well, that and Gims).

>> No.17335577

>>17335375
Bossuet

>> No.17335589

>>17335375
Amin Maalouf is a pretty good franco-lebanese essayist (and novelist, read one of his novel and it was meh). I recommend "La croisade vu par les arabes".

>> No.17335606

>>17335589
>La croisade vu par les arabes
Lol, absolute garbage propaganda.

>> No.17335617

>>17335308
Lots of books are missing, it’s only a chart.

>> No.17335646

>>17335606
Elaborate please

>> No.17335905

>>17335646
Read a history of the crusades, like Gousset or Heers (real historians) you’ll see clearly the differences.

>> No.17336226

>>17335493
Honestly I don't think learning French is worth the effort if your main reason is reading Verne in the original. His style isn't really special and I think there's not much lost in a good translation. I still encourage you to learn it because we have a very vast and good literature, and you'll find authors you'll like anyway. But yeah, you risk being disappointed if you only do it for Verne.

>> No.17336307

vive l'empereur
How is Napoleon considered in France?

>> No.17336371

>>17334718
I've been reading Camus and Hollebecq to practice my French. Which other authors should I check out as someone with a mild level of French?

>> No.17336424

>>17334718
Hon hon hon bonjour mes amies je love le france hon hon hon je am an American who loves le Francesian literature et le Francesian food and woman hon hon hon vive la France

>> No.17336442

Any chart for french reading beginners?

>> No.17337245

Bump

>> No.17337271

>>17335434
In the last Rebatet thread two anon agreed to work on a translation of The Two Standards into English. Does anyone know how far they've gone with it?

>> No.17337285

>>17336307
With mixed feeling. We can't deny his legacy or help admiring him. We also can't deny that he made a butchery of the French (and more largely European) youth. I guess he was like a fever dream that you still remember with some fondness, but also some anxiety.

>> No.17337311

>>17336371
Maupassant

>> No.17337669

>>17335375
Pascal

>> No.17337797

>>17337311
Merci. Qu'est-ce que tu me recommanderais; ses contes ou ses romans?

>> No.17337842

>>17335375
Simone Weil

>> No.17338006

>>17337271
we gave up after we could not decide how to translate the title. I insisted upon 'the two banners' but he says it must be 'the two standards'

>> No.17338124

>>17335375
here are a couple I like
Élie Faure - Histoire de l'art
Maurice Maeterlinck - Le Trésor des humbles, Devant Dieu
Georges Dumézil - La religion
romaine archaïque
Alain Vircondelet - Saint-Exupéry. Histoire d'une vie, Le Paris de Duras
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Phénoménologie
de la perception
Bertrand de Jouvenel - Du pouvoir

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>En littérature, je n'ai plus de confrères. Dans l'espace d'un demi-siècle, les us et coutumes neufs de la corporation m'ont laissé en arrière un à un au fil des années. J'ignore non seulement l'ordinateur, le CD-Rom et le traitement de texte, mais même la machine à écrire, le livre de poche, et, d'une façon générale, les voies et moyens de promotion modernes qui font prospérer les ouvrages de belles-lettres.
This is your daily reminder to read Julien Gracq.
In fact if this post get dubs, everyone itt next read must read a book by Gracq.

>> No.17338196

>>17338146
Avec quel livre devrais-je commencer

>> No.17338356

>>17338196
Le rivage des Syrtes

>> No.17338678

>>17335293
L'anon (probablement étranger) qui a fait ceci a eu une intention honorable, mais s'y est pris un peu bancalement, à mon humble avis.

Pourquoi n'y a-t-il pas d'ordre chronologique ?
Pourquoi des livres centrés sur l'histoire de France pour mettre des œuvres étrangères (alors qu'on a déjà assez de matière en français) ?
Pourquoi pas d'introduction au vieux français ?
Pourquoi l'Imitation, qui est tardive comparé au reste (~1400, représentative de la devotio moderna) ? Ludolphe le Chartreux aurait été bien mieux. Et pourquoi un tel ouvrage (et celui de Suso) dans la philosophie ? N'y aurait-il pas plutôt fallu diviser cette section en "ouvrages de piété" d'un côté, et "philosophie" à proprement parler de l'autre (en ne prenant pas 4 cases avec saint Thomas, il y en avait d'autres à caser, saint Augustin et Duns Scot, par exemple) ?

Il y avait du potentiel, mais le travail a été un peu bâclé, probablement parce que la période n'est pas vraiment connue et qu'on y a fourré ce qu'on trouvait.