/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7355259]

What is a great book to read if you are a francophile /lit/?

[Anonymous No.7355267]

infinite jest

[Anonymous No.7355281]

>>7355259
L'Etranger

Make sure to read it in French. A lot of the subtle nuances of language are lost in the translation. Although I have to give the translation props for using Maman over mother or mama.

[Anonymous No.7355283]

red and the black

[Anonymous No.7355468]

>>7355259
...Y al tercer año resucitó (...And On the Third Year He Rose Again)

[Anonymous No.7355592]

Maybe a book about French history
As for literature, there are quite a lot books actually

>>7355281
Wort recommendation ever

[Anonymous No.7355749]

>>7355592
Better than "there are a lot of books" you fucking mong

[Anonymous No.7355781]

>>7355259
War and Peace

[Anonymous No.7355995]

Someone post the French equivalent of this.

[Anonymous No.7356096]

>>7355995
Just learn French and read La Fontaine

[Anonymous No.7356124]

>>7355995
Very very grossly :
*Montaigne - Les Essais
*Rabelais - Pantagruel, Gargantua
Ronsard - Les Odes, Les Amours
Du Bellay - Les Regrets, Les Antiquités de Rome, L'Olive
Malherbe - Poetry
*Agrippa d’Aubigné - Les Tragiques
Rotrou - Le Véritable Saint Genest, Antigone
Corneille - Le Cid, Cinna, Horace, La Mort de Pompée, L'Illusion Comique, Médée
Racine - Britannicus, Athalie, Andromaque, Bérénice, Mithridate, Bajazet, Phèdre, Iphigénie
La Fontaine - Les Fables
Quinault - Armide
Madame de La Fayette - La Princesse de Clèves
La Rochefoucauld - Les Maximes

You can start with this for the XVIth and XVIIth Century

Those marked with a * might be a bit difficult and long (depends on your level in French though)

[Anonymous No.7356130]

>>7355995
>>7356124
Wow I literally forgot Boileau (L'Art poétique, Les Satires, Les Épîtres), what a ridiculous mistake