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Contrary to what many Americans believe, the French are very open to other cultures: The following writer's homes can be visited: Visit a site devoted to writers' houses and literary collections all over France. See a list of French novels with a very strong historical background.
Click here for other places of memory sculptors, musicians, etc. The French like comic books B. Only ignorant French-bashers can write that the French like BDs because they are not capable of reading a "real" book!
Read more about comic strips in France. Any reasonably educated French person is more or less familiar with the following suggestions.
IF somebody is describing a situation of extreme poverty and you are becoming bored…. Emile Zola , the French equivalent of Charles Dickens described the situation of factory workers and their families at the worst of the Industrial revolution ;. Stendhal's hero of La Chartreuse de Parme happens to be present on the battlefield of the last defeat of Napoleon and is unable to understand what is happening around him, because it's too close;.
In , Georges Perec, a highly respected novelist, wrote a lipogram.
You don't know what it is? It is a page novel without, not even once, the letter "e". It was translated into English under the title: A void and the title in French is La Disparition. Surprisingly, it is a good novel Literature and anti-Semitism Can you be a great writer and a despicable person?
Balzac's dissertations are strings of sonorously elaborated commonplaces. Chaissac marked it as to-read Jul 04, In he is apprehended with some friends robbing a college of gold coins. See a page on American writers in Paris. Want to Read saving…. Continued Ronsard, Pierre de. Of the authors mentioned, Gombauld stands somewhat by himself.
The dramatic events of WW2 raised the old question: In the s,two writers among others, wrote terrible anti-Semitic articles and books and even worse if possible during the four years of German occupation The first one, Robert Brasillach was considered the most promising novelist of his generation and several of his books which contain nothing questionable about anti-Semitism are still largely read and deserve it, although he was the publisher of a disgusting anti-Semitic magazine, Je Suis Partout.
He was sentenced to death and shot, General de Gaulle having refused his pardon in spite of a call for pity signed by some of the most respected writers of that time, among them some major figures of the Resistance.
The second writer raises an even more complicated problem: Louis-Ferdinand Celine is considered by many one of the most important writers of French literature. He created a language of his own, his style is inimitable and his most famous book "Voyage au bout de la nuit" Journey to the End of the Night", , is probably one of ten or twenty most important books in French literature. The entire work of Celine is now published inthe most famous French collection La Pleiade along with the greatest French writers.
First edition of this collection of love poems in which Ronsard celebrates Marie. The poet develops a new and more familiar style to tell his love story for a young Angevine girl named Marie Dupin. In , Ronsard produced his Nouvelle Continuation des Amours to augment and complete his love poems series which had been successfully received. The two books were eventually published together in a single volume for Vincent Sertenas in , and by unscrupulous publishers who issued pirated editions of the book the same year.
Copies of the original edition are extremely scarce.
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