Hope you're done with the Russians. Next on the menu are the French. The list is not exhaustive, will share more writers once we are done with these. #FrenchLiterature
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1. La Comédie Humaine (The Human Comedy) -magnum opus
○ The Comédie humaine consists of 91 finished works (stories, novels or analytical essays) and 46 unfinished works
○ multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848)
○ a panoramic portrait of "all aspects of society"
○ originally called it Etudes des Mœurs ( literally 'Studies of manners', or 'The Ways of the World '
○ Selected Works:
§ Les Chouans (1829)
§ Sarrasine (1830) - (Roland Barthes' blow-by-blow analysis of the text in his book S/Z(1970). Barthes dissects the text in accordance with five "codes" (hermeneutic, semic, symbolic, proairetic and cultural).
§ La Peau de chagrin (1831) - (The Wild Ass's Skin or The Magic Skin)
§ Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (1831)
§ Le Colonel Chabert (1832)
§ Eugénie Grandet, (1833) his first best-seller.
§ Le Père Goriot (Old Father Goriot, 1835) - transposes the story of King Lear to 1820s Paris in order to rage at a society bereft of all love save the love of money.
2. Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature
3. "What a man he would have been had he known how to write! - Flaubert
4. W. H. Helm calls one "the French Dickens" - and Dickens "the English Balzac"
1. La Comédie Humaine (The Human Comedy) -magnum opus
○ The Comédie humaine consists of 91 finished works (stories, novels or analytical essays) and 46 unfinished works
○ multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848)
○ a panoramic portrait of "all aspects of society"
○ originally called it Etudes des Mœurs ( literally 'Studies of manners', or 'The Ways of the World '
○ Selected Works:
§ Les Chouans (1829)
§ Sarrasine (1830) - (Roland Barthes' blow-by-blow analysis of the text in his book S/Z(1970). Barthes dissects the text in accordance with five "codes" (hermeneutic, semic, symbolic, proairetic and cultural).
§ La Peau de chagrin (1831) - (The Wild Ass's Skin or The Magic Skin)
§ Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (1831)
§ Le Colonel Chabert (1832)
§ Eugénie Grandet, (1833) his first best-seller.
§ Le Père Goriot (Old Father Goriot, 1835) - transposes the story of King Lear to 1820s Paris in order to rage at a society bereft of all love save the love of money.
2. Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature
3. "What a man he would have been had he known how to write! - Flaubert
4. W. H. Helm calls one "the French Dickens" - and Dickens "the English Balzac"
• Dumas' last novel, The Knight of Sainte-Hermine, unfinished at his death, was completed by scholar Claude Schopp and published in 2005
• It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier.
Works:
• The Conspirators (Le chevalier d'Harmental, 1843)
• The Regent's Daughter (Une Fille du régent, 1845). Sequel to The Conspirators.
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 1844–1846)
• The d'Artagnan Romances
1. The Three Musketeers, set between 1625 and 1628; first published in serial form in the magazine Le Siècle bebtween March and July 1844
2. Twenty Years After, set between 1648 and 1649; serialized from January to August, 1845.
3. The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, set between 1660 and 1673; serialized from October 1847 to January 1850
The Marie Antoinette romances
The Marie Antoinette romances comprise eight novels.
The Sainte-Hermine trilogy
• The Companions of Jehu (Les Compagnons de Jehu, 1857)
• The Whites and the Blues (Les Blancs et les Bleus, 1867)
The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, 1869)
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• It was published in English in 2008 as The Last Cavalier.
Works:
• The Conspirators (Le chevalier d'Harmental, 1843)
• The Regent's Daughter (Une Fille du régent, 1845). Sequel to The Conspirators.
• The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 1844–1846)
• The d'Artagnan Romances
1. The Three Musketeers, set between 1625 and 1628; first published in serial form in the magazine Le Siècle bebtween March and July 1844
2. Twenty Years After, set between 1648 and 1649; serialized from January to August, 1845.
3. The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, set between 1660 and 1673; serialized from October 1847 to January 1850
The Marie Antoinette romances
The Marie Antoinette romances comprise eight novels.
The Sainte-Hermine trilogy
• The Companions of Jehu (Les Compagnons de Jehu, 1857)
• The Whites and the Blues (Les Blancs et les Bleus, 1867)
The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, 1869)
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Novels:
• Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)
• Les Misérables (1862) [Read summary]
• William Shakespeare (1864)
Plays:
• Cromwell
• Hernani
He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment.
In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages).
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• Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)
• Les Misérables (1862) [Read summary]
• William Shakespeare (1864)
Plays:
• Cromwell
• Hernani
He produced more than 4,000 drawings in his lifetime, and campaigned for social causes such as the abolition of capital punishment.
In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages).
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• debut novel Madame Bovary (1857)
• took five years to write, was serialized in the Revue de Paris in 1856 (The government brought an action against the publisher and author on the charge of immorality, which was heard during the following year, but both were acquitted.)
• leading exponent of literary realism
short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
Works:
1. Memoirs of a Madman (1838)
2. Madame Bovary (1857)
3. Salammbô (1862)
4. Sentimental Education (1869)
5. Le Candidat (1874)
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874)
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• took five years to write, was serialized in the Revue de Paris in 1856 (The government brought an action against the publisher and author on the charge of immorality, which was heard during the following year, but both were acquitted.)
• leading exponent of literary realism
short story writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
Works:
1. Memoirs of a Madman (1838)
2. Madame Bovary (1857)
3. Salammbô (1862)
4. Sentimental Education (1869)
5. Le Candidat (1874)
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874)
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Jules Vernes
French novelist, poet, and playwright.
• sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.
• A primary issue at the heart of the dispute is the question of whether Verne's works count as science fiction to begin with. Maurice Renard claimed that Verne "never wrote a single sentence of scientific-marvelous".[106] Verne himself argued repeatedly in interviews that his novels were not meant to be read as scientific, saying "I have invented nothing." His own goal was rather to "depict the earth [and] at the same time to realize a very high ideal of beauty of style"
• Most of the novels in the Voyages series (except for Five Weeks in a Balloon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and The Purchase of the North Pole) were first serialized in periodicals, usually in Hetzel’s Magasin d'Éducation et de récréation ("Magazine of Education and Recreation").
Works:
1.Five Weeks in a Balloon 1863
2. Journey to the Center of the Earth 1866
3. From the Earth to the Moon 1865
4. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea 1869
5. Around the Moon 1870
6. Discovery of the Earth
7. Around the World in Eighty Days 1873
8. The Mysterious Island 1874
Extraordinary Voyages is a sequence of fifty-four novels by the French writer Jules Verne, originally published between 1863 and 1905.
First Novel -
Five Weeks in a Balloon 1863
Last Novel -
Invasion of the Sea 1905
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French novelist, poet, and playwright.
• sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.
• A primary issue at the heart of the dispute is the question of whether Verne's works count as science fiction to begin with. Maurice Renard claimed that Verne "never wrote a single sentence of scientific-marvelous".[106] Verne himself argued repeatedly in interviews that his novels were not meant to be read as scientific, saying "I have invented nothing." His own goal was rather to "depict the earth [and] at the same time to realize a very high ideal of beauty of style"
• Most of the novels in the Voyages series (except for Five Weeks in a Balloon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and The Purchase of the North Pole) were first serialized in periodicals, usually in Hetzel’s Magasin d'Éducation et de récréation ("Magazine of Education and Recreation").
Works:
1.Five Weeks in a Balloon 1863
2. Journey to the Center of the Earth 1866
3. From the Earth to the Moon 1865
4. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea 1869
5. Around the Moon 1870
6. Discovery of the Earth
7. Around the World in Eighty Days 1873
8. The Mysterious Island 1874
Extraordinary Voyages is a sequence of fifty-four novels by the French writer Jules Verne, originally published between 1863 and 1905.
First Novel -
Five Weeks in a Balloon 1863
Last Novel -
Invasion of the Sea 1905
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French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.
"J'accuse…!" ("I accuse...!") was an open letter published on 13 January 1898 in the newspaper L'Aurore by the influential writer Émile Zola.
• In the letter, Zola addressed President of France Félix Faure and accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army General Staff officer who was sentenced to lifelong penal servitude for espionage.
• Les Rougon-Macquart,
• Thérèse Raquin,
• Germinal - 1885 - Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s
• Nana
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"J'accuse…!" ("I accuse...!") was an open letter published on 13 January 1898 in the newspaper L'Aurore by the influential writer Émile Zola.
• In the letter, Zola addressed President of France Félix Faure and accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army General Staff officer who was sentenced to lifelong penal servitude for espionage.
• Les Rougon-Macquart,
• Thérèse Raquin,
• Germinal - 1885 - Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s
• Nana
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won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "
France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
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France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
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representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.
"The Necklace" or "The Diamond Necklace" - (most famous short story)
Madame Mathilde Loisel - married a low paid clerk - wants to make her happy - begs invitation to Ministry of Education party - wife unhappy - has nothing to wear- buys dress with 400 francs - still not happy - wants jewelry - goes to borrow it as they have no money - buys Madame Jeanne Forestier's fancy necklace - loses it - finds another for 40,000 in a shop - sell everything to get it for 36,000 - lead a poor life - Mathilde meets Jeanne after years only to realise that her Jeanne's necklace was fake or 'made of paste' - worth not more than 500 francs.
"The Necklace", was imitated with a twist by both Maugham ("Mr Know-All", "A String of Beads") and Henry James ("Paste").
Works:
1. La Maison Tellier - 1881 (first volume of short stories)
2. A Woman's Life - 1883 (first novel)
3. Bel Ami - 1885 (second novel)
4. Pierre et Jean (considered his greatest novel)
Maupassant also wrote under several pseudonyms such as Joseph Prunier, Guy de Valmont, and Maufrigneus
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"The Necklace" or "The Diamond Necklace" - (most famous short story)
Madame Mathilde Loisel - married a low paid clerk - wants to make her happy - begs invitation to Ministry of Education party - wife unhappy - has nothing to wear- buys dress with 400 francs - still not happy - wants jewelry - goes to borrow it as they have no money - buys Madame Jeanne Forestier's fancy necklace - loses it - finds another for 40,000 in a shop - sell everything to get it for 36,000 - lead a poor life - Mathilde meets Jeanne after years only to realise that her Jeanne's necklace was fake or 'made of paste' - worth not more than 500 francs.
"The Necklace", was imitated with a twist by both Maugham ("Mr Know-All", "A String of Beads") and Henry James ("Paste").
Works:
1. La Maison Tellier - 1881 (first volume of short stories)
2. A Woman's Life - 1883 (first novel)
3. Bel Ami - 1885 (second novel)
4. Pierre et Jean (considered his greatest novel)
Maupassant also wrote under several pseudonyms such as Joseph Prunier, Guy de Valmont, and Maufrigneus
#FrenchLiterature