/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22306807]

I am trying to learn French by reading French books and novels. I am currently B-1 tier level (i.e. early intermediate).
I need some recommendations about some interesting French novels or history-related books. I've seen many recommend L'Étranger by Albert Camus. I need more recommendations please, much more.

[Anonymous No.22306812]

read La Planète des Singes please it's great, even if you know the film.

[Anonymous No.22306825]

Le Sang Noir

[Anonymous No.22306829]

>>22306807
Emile Zola wrote newspaper novels for working class illiterates. Emile Zola. Start with Germinal. Please note that the union organiser in Germinal *betrays and destroys* workers. Yet under the snow the flowers rise up.

Death to the boss class and their bureaucrat stooges.

He rapes a girl to death in a collapsed coal mine.

[Anonymous No.22306849]

>>22306829
>He rapes a girl to death in a collapsed coal mine.
are all the anti-labor people in ths book portrayd to be as cartoonishly evil as this guy? I only read about 50 pages but I remember it being pretty good, very sympathetic characters

[Anonymous No.22306863]

You can watch french prostitutes reading books in french.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCClGNFZtpooW_2hy-cQ1M1Q/videos

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[Anonymous No.22306865]

https://www.youtube.com/@VABDLN/videos

[Anonymous No.22306871]

>>22306849
>are all the anti-labor people
The guy who rapes the girl is the pro-labour hero.

Zola was capable of an analysis of the nomenklatura. The anarchist's rabbit survives by selling her kittens for food. Etienne murders his comrades and rapes them. Just like party members do in real life. Post communism as communism is the only real communism: murder the red bourgeois along with the blue.

[Anonymous No.22306882]

Read Casanova's histoire de ma vie. Easy, fun, thoughtful memoirs that guide you through 18th century europe. Quite kino

[Anonymous No.22306889]

It's a fictionalized biography of Felix Kersten, personal massage therapist to Heinrich Himmler.

[Anonymous No.22306905]

La Rochefoucauld's maxims, absolute masterpiece and most maxims aren't longer than a tweet. learn one everyday it'll change your vision of people

[Anonymous No.22306984]

>>22306905
stfu Waldun

[Anonymous No.22307011]

Fables de La Fontaine : trois recueils regroupant deux cent quarante-trois fables allégoriques publiés par Jean de La Fontaine entre 1668 et 1694

[Anonymous No.22307024]

>>22307011
>17th century fables are suitable for a B1 student
putain de bordel de merde

[Anonymous No.22307031]

>>22307024
>>>17th century fables are suitable for a B1 student
yes

[Anonymous No.22307040]

>>22307031
>i want to learn all about modern trains
>here, take this handbook from 1804 on steam locomotives
your logic

[Anonymous No.22307074]

>>22306807
hello anon. I recommend you get something easy, like a collection of short police stories. When I was starting I got one for free from a street bookseller in Paris after I told her I wanted something easy. Otherwise you can get that shit for like 2 euros.
Some authors are easier than others. Descartes, for example, you can read him even at B2 level.
In any case if you happen to be in France do go to a bookstore and ask for easy shit

[Anonymous No.22307080]

>>22306807
I understand the desire to only want French authors but I recommend you try some translated books as well. They're generally easier than native works. Non-fiction is also generally easier than prose. Bonne chance!

[Anonymous No.22307083]

>>22307040
>What are modern editions
Putain d'attardé
Also, the fables are usually taught to french primary schoolers

[Anonymous No.22307087]

>>22307083
French primary schoolers are not B1 you dingus.

What possible utility could 17th century fables have for a person still learning the language? They'll be wasting time with words that are no longer relevant.

[Anonymous No.22307104]

Georges Simenon's novels and short stories are pretty accessible and helped me during my own studies.

[Anonymous No.22307257]

>>22307087
Have you ever read anything written in the XVIIe century ? The french there is practically the same as the one we speak today, except maybe for minor grammar preferences. Take any Fable, you wouldn't find much obselete words. Anyways, the argument of "non relevant words" already displayed you profound ignorance as to anything remotely literary. Refrain for speaking as much as you could.

[Anonymous No.22307261]

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[Anonymous No.22307407]

> muh fable is hard

[Anonymous No.22307410]

>>22306829
Germinal is well beyond OP’s power, you fucking troglodyte. Your characterization of Zola’s writing is only applicable to his early work

[Anonymous No.22307438]

>>22307087
Fables are fun

[Mr McVitie the Cartoonist No.22307562]

>I am trying to learn French

[Anonymous No.22307578]

Céline said the only poetry worth reading in all these centuries is the Fables, but i can't find the interview. he might have been half-trolling

[Anonymous No.22307612]

>>22307257
>except maybe for minor grammar preferences
They're still probably having trouble with modern tenses and conjugation, why even put that in front of them?

>profound ignorance as to anything remotely literary
We're not recommending things for their literary merit you fucking mongoloid, it's to help them learn a language. When you're B1 you're looking for something comprehensible - enjoyable is a bonus.

It's like if I told a B1 English learner to read Gulliver's Travels or Robinson Crusoe. What sense does that make?