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Can I get some recommendations on French literature besides Camus? I checked the /lit/ wiki but didn't find anything.

>> No.9881829

>>9881802
Victor Hugo

>> No.9881851

In translation?

>> No.9881985

>>9881802
Molière, Montesquieu, Laclos, Voltaire, Hugo, Maupassant, Zola, Flaubert, ect ...

>> No.9881987

journey to the end of the night
candide
anti-oedipus

>> No.9881989

Racine, Rabelais, Froissart, Balzac, George Sand, a
Stendhal and Grillet.

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>>9881989
>Racine in translation

>> No.9882289

>>9881802
Hugo, Rousseau, Voltaire, Dumas

>> No.9882419

Prose :
Gracq, Giono, Montaigne, Huysmans, Maupassant, Flaubert, Rousseau, Giraudoux, Diderot

>> No.9882696

>>9882419
A lot of second-rate writers there.

How can you name Maupassant, Huysmans or Giraudoux (or even Gracq) and leave out Proust, Céline, Stendhal, Balzac...? or just Hugo?

>> No.9882720

>>9881802
Huysmans, Baudelaire, Proust, Racine

>> No.9882725

Houellebecq

>> No.9882761

>>9882696
>How can you name Maupassant, Huysmans or Giraudoux (or even Gracq) and leave out Proust, Céline, Stendhal, Balzac...? or just Hugo?
I would like to know how you decide which author is second-rate which one isn't.
Stendhal, Balzac and Hugo were already recommended.
As for Proust and Céline, I don't think they are easily translatable (same for Huysmans though).

>> No.9882806

Proust, Stendhal, Zola, Flaubert.

>> No.9882845

Chanson de Roland, Chanson de Gillaume and the crusade cycle.
Chanson de geste are the pinnacle of french literature.

>> No.9882879

>>9882761
>I would like to know how you decide which author is second-rate which one isn't
I have taste. Apart from that, Huysmans sells less than Proust or Hugo, and is less significant (less influential, less adapted, etc.) than them domestically and internationally. I like Huysmans but he's no Hugo.

>As for Proust and Céline, I don't think they are easily translatable
Proust translates quite well. Céline not. But even in translation, he's still good and relevant abroad.

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9882888

This thread desperately needs some Perec (and Queneau too)

>> No.9882910

>>9882879
>Apart from that, Huysmans sells less than
I stopped reading there.

>>9882845
>Chanson de geste are the pinnacle of french literature.
I beg to differ, Saint-Simon and La Fontaine are, in my opinion, the best writers in all French literature.

>> No.9883442

>>9882910
>I stopped reading there

No one cares.

For other people who do read my posts, here's my rationale. Selling well is important for old books, because: reasonably high sales = keeps on being re-published regularly = keeps on being influential = keeps on being first-rate for the public.

Not everything that sells well is first-rate, but everything that is first-rate sells well. (We're not talking about selling millions, just about being profitable for publishers.)

A classic that doesn't sell anymore (say the tragedies of Voltaire, or L'Astrée by Honoré d'Urfé) isn't republished and loses all its influence. Then it can even become ugly, dated or ridiculous because other classics with other aesthetic values take the lead.

>> No.9883716

Thanks, guys.

>> No.9883744

>>9881802
C O L E T T E
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>> No.9883749

>>9883744
and pretty much everything else that's been mentioned. Also the Letters of Abelard & Heloise, and the Heptameron.

>> No.9883871

>ctrl + F
>"Lautréamont"
>0 result

Lautréamont?

>> No.9883910

Céline, voyage au bout de la nuit!!!

>> No.9883918

But maybe it's difficult to translate Céline, in fact idk i'm french

>> No.9884048

https://www.amazon.com/Jean-Paul-Sartre/e/B000AQ0LN0

>> No.9884055

>>9881802
>25 replies and no ones mentioned Chrétien de Troyes or Dumas

>> No.9884139

MONTAIGNE

>> No.9884213

>Villon
>La Rochefoucauld
>Verlaine
>Mallarmé
>Rimbaud

>> No.9884374

Boris Vian