Hello,
Honest question. What is the appeal of French literature, especially to foreigners?
As a Frenchman myself, I have always found French to be a bland language that lacks flow and bars the reader from trully immersing himself. It makes up for boring stories, cryptic essays and masquerading philosophies.
What am I missing?
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I always found the stories to be gripping. Might just be a foreigner appeal though idk.
I like French lit but I've only read translations. I'd like to learn the language just so I don't have to deal with subtitles. What language has a literature that you like then OP? Or a language better fit for literature?
Franch has more flow than english. Doesn't beat portuguese or italian, but definitely beats english.
Agreed, but soon France will be getting some PoC flavah and will finally be good
>What is the appeal of French literature
There's none
Learn the mastertongue instead youtu.be
>cryptic essays and masquerading philosophies.
This is true.
There is none: Russians copied French literature, wasted their efforts until there were literate political prisoners, who could after serving their sentences write memoirs (Fjodor Mihailovits, followed Varlam Tihinovits and Alexander Isajevits in the next century).
Absolute shit, still in 20th century, that's what French literature (say, Aubry, who didn't finish his history of French revolution) is compared to German and Italian literature and especially literature of the many smaller nationalities combining French, German and Italian literal styles living between the Asiatic Russia and Europe proper.
i like some french writers, especially dumas, but damn are you guys obsessed with vaginas.
Should I abandon my hopes, user?
I wanted to write a book in the defeatist tone of Michel Houellbecq.