Any french Veeky Forums fellows here? I came here a while ago for reccomendation on french litterature, which I have followed and expanded upon, but feel free to suggest more obscure titles or dense works.
I was here called a pleb for liking Voltaire and, upon verification, it was true.
Levi Smith
Can French people be plebs?
Gabriel Mitchell
What did you read so far?
Lincoln Bennett
Léon Bloy - Le désespéré L.F Céline - Mort à Credit Pierre Drieu La Rochelle - Le Feu follet Honoré de Balzac - Le Père Goriot Gustave Flaubert - L’Éducation Sentimentale
Anthony White
Candide and Zadig are good, don't know what you're talking about.
Samuel Cooper
French guy here. Yeah, most French people are total plebs. The aristocracy is almost dead.
Nathan Bennett
Candide is based on a strawman directed at Leibniz. Zadig was irrelevant, I read it in highschool and don't remember it at all.
Ryan Rivera
Andre Gide is a nice read.
Cameron Price
Since writers like Voltaire or Hugo are taught in middle school and high school, they're considered pleb-tier. Voltaire also sounds like a pretentious contrarian. OP, I would recommend François Mauriac, André Gide, Léon Bloy, Jean Echenoz, Anatole France, Georges Duhamel. Céline is also great but it seems pretty hard to get into. On poetry, you should definitely read Saint-John Perse, Charles Péguy, Émile Verhaeren or Jacques Prévert.
Luke Brooks
BECKETT
Gabriel Green
Que des classiques, longs te rigoureux... Is Veeky Forums that pretentious ?
Molière Voltaire J.J. Rousseau Chretien de Troyes Diderot Coudrette Hugo Vigny Maupassant Flaubert Sartre Colette And much more tbqh Great suggestions, very original too, I'll note it down. Zadig was shit, Candide was petty. L'ingénu and Micromegas are his best work imho.
Benjamin Price
Il demande des œuvres denses et les écrits de Bloy ou Drieu La Rochelle sont loin d’être des classiques... Is Veeky Forums that foolish?
Hudson Myers
J'ai lu rapidement, mais je faisais référence au passage sur Voltaire. Je me suis trompé de message à vrai dire...
Jaxon Flores
>Le Nouveau Roman >Good >The guy who wrote fucking Zazie dans le Métro >Good
Your tastes are "première année en fac de Lettres" tier.
Benjamin Foster
En quoi Louis-Ferdinand Céline est-il « rigoureux » ?
Frankly, I'm not sure going through the classics is worthwhile unless you really like a particular style. You should read some short stories and decide whether you want to go deeper or not.
Jayden Garcia
I've read Maupassant's shorter works and was left unsatisfied. His novels were great though. Baudelaire's prose was great too, and so was Vigny's.
Ethan Perez
…then is your answer high school-tier rhetoric?
Colton Long
Hahaha, magique !
J'ai généralisé, je n'aurais pas dû.
Samuel Brown
Joachim du Bellay - Les Regrets
Jaxson Phillips
le travail et l'usure
Evan Myers
Grosse merde.
>Voltaire >Rousseau >Diderot >Sartre >Colette >wasting time on all these shits Well at least you know more about literature now. Proudhon's Les Femmelins to get your literature staight.
All of these are great. You can add Stendhal, Barbey, Bernanos, Huguenin, J. Green for prose, but you may also need poetry
+ the rest of the Pléiade, some of the Grands Rhétoriqueurs, d'Aubigné, Scève, La Fontaine, Corneille, Racine, Boileau, Malherbe, Chénier, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Moréas, Verlaine, and so on.
Ethan Roberts
Looking at how they vote right now, at least half of the country must be radical pleb.
Jason Smith
Can someone name post-revolution French Veeky Forums that has done anything other than propagating other French Veeky Forums?
Jackson Miller
Beckett
Angel Anderson
...
Brayden Cooper
I see no post-revolution authors who have contributed anything to non-French Veeky Forums.
Kevin Sanchez
I'm just stating facts. Anyone with a certain sensibility for literature would never prefer Queneau or Robbes-Grillet and diss Céline or Bloy.
Gabriel Ross
> muh tastes
All of them derserve respect and attention.
Elijah Carter
nice how you skip over Beckett, the one author who is a clear exception to your rule
Logan Ramirez
Des choses que j'ai lues récemment :
>Histoire comique de Francion - Charles Sorel De bonnes grosses farces et des histoires de cul. Un poil long, mais c'est des barres.
>Le Page disgracié - Tristan l'Hermite Pour un aperçu des rapports entre les gens au XVIIe. Et bien sûr pour l'aventure de Robert le singe.
>Un roi sans divertissement - Jean Giono Parce que Langlois est un BAMF et parce que la dernière phrase en vaut la peine.
ne pas déclamer La pucelle de voltaire en prenant ta chérie en lele...
>ne pas déclamer
Charles Harris
[Spoiler] I own the entire work of Colette, some of her corespondances, a biography and an essay on her. [/Spoiler]
Christopher Evans
No, I saw that. But is there really only one exception?
I mean, who else? The insufferable Lacant, who spawned the chucklehead Zizek?
Dylan Perry
What is this supposed to mean
Angel Martinez
rip
the only valuable thing with her was her relationship with De Jouvenel son
Aaron Myers
It struck me that there aren't a bunch of French authors that are very relevant outside of French literature. This includes philosophers, which are often mentioned, but rarely seriously considered outside of France.
Dominic Carter
i would say beckett, celine, sartre, maupassant, balzac and proust are definitely heralded worldwide
honostly i'm not sure i understand what you mean. lots of relevent literature came from france
Nathan Sanchez
S'en aller! S'en aller! Parole de vivant!
Luis Howard
only because you're not in France
Ayden Thompson
>relevant So you're talking academia >philosophers, which are often mentioned, but rarely seriously considered outside of France. On the contrary - they're not seriously considered by anyone in France (maybe their brand of swindling requires a patina of exoticism, or maybe the national arrogance is just immune to it), but in the US the humanities fell in love with them back in the seventies and still haven't woken up. They seem pretty popular in Japan too
Anthony Hall
>but in the US the humanities fell in love with them back in the seventies and still haven't woken up
Only in pseudo-intellectual fields like "Cultural Studies". Not in legit fields like Philosophy.
Anthony Gray
>mvq je me retrouve avec des gens de trois ans de moins que moi en L1 de droit quoi faire?
Ayden Roberts
Ne pas aller dans une filière que tu abandonneras.
Landon Wright
Maybe French culture ought to just stay artisan and leave thinking to the Brits and Germans.
Jace Martinez
Hey French fags - do you still hate the Cagots?
Why are you such bigots?
Ethan Lewis
Wikipedia just taught me what a cagot is. I'm an adult french. Did you hear about the cagots through your sociology or history teacher? Serious question.
Brayden Morales
>csq je trouve des gens 3+ ans de plus que moi en L1 de droit.
merde
Asher Cox
Strange. I'm German and I had the same experience when someone asked me about "Sinti and Roma".
Levi Robinson
>inb4 hitler jokes
Caleb Martin
Weird. I'm American and had the same experience when somebody asked me about so-called "black people". I don't see color, so I'm completely baffled.
John Mitchell
toi tu n'es pas français
Angel Parker
What about Chateaubriand's memoirs? Just bought the whole thing for 10$ (4 hardcover volumes, mint condition.)
Ayden Carter
same as
Christopher Thompson
comment peut-tu la observer, brillant grenouille dont j'en ai beaucoup de respect pour.
Jack Thompson
Vewy baffuraring. I am from greato Nippon and had-e se same experienc-e wis FILSY DISONURUBRU "Barakumi". I know not what zat is.
Adam Williams
I can't even remember why they're famous, historical value likely, but they read like a novel