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What is an essential French novel? Most of the classics are door-stoppers, so I’d like to just pick one.

>> No.14983443

The Red and the Black

>> No.14983452
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This started romanticism in France and is a short read.

>> No.14983472

>>14983431
Do you read French? 'cause some great ones are not translated

>> No.14983483

>>14983472
Nope monolingual Ameritard. Was wondering about Les Mis, Three Musketeers and others.

>> No.14983494

>>14983472
Such as?

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>>14983431
Candide is fun. Great description of the Anthropic Principle...

>> No.14983507

>>14983483
Sentimental Education is a great one

>> No.14983538

>>14983431
Germinal, or anything by Zola really.
Also Balzac. Father Goriot is the typical start point, but all his novels are easily digestible.

>> No.14983563

>>14983452
>This started romanticism in France
Is this true?

>> No.14983568

>>14983563
Yep

>> No.14983582

>>14983563
Victor Hugo, while he was still in school, said he would become the next Chateaubriand and soon became the head of Romanticism by his early twenties.

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>>14983431
I don't know if I'd call it the greatest, but the most "essential" French novel is pic related

>> No.14983584

>>14983431
Read any Balzac. Pere Goriot, Sarrasine, La Peau de chagrin, etc...

>> No.14983586

>>14983452
Chateaubriand started it, yes, but it wasn't with that book.

>> No.14983596

What's an untranslatable French novel? Doesn't have to be major, just good

>> No.14983598

>>14983596
À rebours

>> No.14983611

>>14983585
That's not the cover from À la recherche du temps perdu

>> No.14983628

>>14983598
A good place to start with Huysmans? What about Là-Bas?

>> No.14983630

>>14983586
which one was started it?

>> No.14983631

>>14983431
The Little Prince

>> No.14983638

>>14983472
can you tell me some of the great untranslated works ?

>> No.14983642

>>14983628
À rebours then Lá-Bas

>> No.14983653

>>14983563
>>14983586
Whatever, it's an essential work.
It's terrible, though. It may be as short as 30 pages, I'm still not sure if it was worth reading.

>>14983499
>>14983584
Very good recs and not too long. Old Goriot is a sure pick.

>> No.14983670

Madame Bovary

>> No.14983709

Does Three Musketeers actually have action scenes?

>> No.14983720

>>14983670
Good answer, I was going to say the same

>> No.14983747

>>14983709
It has many action scenes.

>> No.14983786

>>14983747
Good to hear. I’m sure that actually helps move it along.

>> No.14983842

>>14983431
le grand Meaulnes

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>>14983431
Nausea is the peak of French literature and probably literature in general. It’s the only French book—nay, the only book at all—that anyone needs to read. With Nausea, Sartre solved literature, making the medium obsolete, and ushering in a new, technologically-advanced age of storytelling via movies, television, etc. You should probably learn French before you read it though.

>> No.14983911

>>14983842
c'est bien ça au fait ? c'est pas pour les kids?

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>>14983908
Basé

>> No.14983929

>>14983431
Madame Bovary

>> No.14983932

Is Memoirs d'Hadrien a French essential? How hard is it in the original?

>> No.14983962

>>14983929
This is the correct answer

>> No.14984382

>>14983431
17th Lafontaine
18th Chamfort
19th Bloy
20th Céline

>> No.14984433

>>14983431
Thomas l'obscur

>> No.14984454

Mádame Bovary, Thérèse Raquin, Charterhouse of Parma; Bel Ami

>> No.14984462

>>14983912
Sur quoi?

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>>14984462
la vérité éternelle...

>> No.14984725

>>14984454
These, and Illusions Perdues

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Recently finished this. It was damn good.
Even though Houellebecq is a bit of a meme, he's the best thing France has got going for them right now.
It's only ~200 pages so a nice read during the coronapocalypse.

>> No.14984750

>>14983908
>probably literature in general.
lol it's a nonentity. Finnegans Wake ended literature.