good french books to read?

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good french books to read?

Answer 1

If you liked "un sac de billes", you might want to try "Anna et son orchestre" by the same author about his mother.



"Le dernier jour d'un condamné" by Victor Hugo is a short but very intense book dealing with the death penalty before it was abolished in France.



There's always the classic "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert which is fantastic but might be a little hard depending on your level.



I loved "Un barage contre le Pacifique" by Marguerite Duras.



I agree that "L'étranger" by Camus is definitely worth the detour.



As for less serious books, The trilogy of the "Fourmis" by Weber is quite good and shouldn't be too hard to read.



If you like poetry, "Les fleurs du mal" by Charles Baudelaire that every French student gets to work on. It's pure magic.

"Alcools" by Guillaume Apollinaire is very famous too.



If you like theatre, "En attendant Godot" by Samuel Beckett

"La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu" by Jean Giraudoux



There are loads of other books but I can't think of them right now. I might come back later to edit this post.



Bonne lecture !

Answer 2

"Le Petit Prince" by Antoine de St. Exupery. It's great for your level, too.



For 2-3 years at your level, to be frank, many of the other recommendations made on here will be way, way too difficult.

Answer 3

The short stories of Guy de Maupassant are really good and pretty accessable. I'm no expert, but he is very well regarded.



Emile Zola too is brilliant, and portrays the French working classes of his period incredibly well.

Answer 4

Where should I begin with that tremendous wealth of the French Literature.

Well, you could find many but I suggest some of the above:

- Stendhal, La Chartreuse de Parma

- Bonjour Tristesse, Francoise Sagan

- Everything of Collete

- Books of Duras

- L' Etranger, Albert Camus

- Marquerite Yourcenar, Memoires d' Hadrien

-Madam Bovary or L' education sentimental by Flaubert

- A la recherche du temps perdu, Marcel Proust

Then you can try with philosophers such Sartre or his mate Simone de Beauvoir who wrote The second sex. Of course there are many others except them. But it is a good start.

Regarding the poetry you can try Ronsard, La fontaine (although they are of a very earlier period) and surrealists. Arthur Rimbaud is fine.



There are also the classics such Moliere, Edmond Rostand with Cyrano de Bergerac, Dumas and Balzac.



Very interesting are also Raymond Queneau and Blaise Pascal.



But in anyway don't forget Asterix and Ovelix and the Little Prince as it has been mentioned before.



Cheers,

Answer 5

If you want some light reading, rather than the heavy stuff like Camus or Zola, I just love the "le petit Nicholas" series of books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé. Although they are children's books, they are full of fun and great for an adult learner.



Another author that I quite like is Marcel Pagnol. The first in his semi-autobiographical series of novels is "La gloire de mon Père".



Whatever you choose to read ... enjoy!

Answer 6

When in Rome...

Read "Amelie Nothomb" "Philippe Claudel" "Guillaume Musso" "Bernard Werber". la best-seller liste de l'heure.

My suggestion:

Tintin ou Astérix ou Titeuf.

Comics are "in"

Answer 7

"Le lion" by Joseph Kessel (the story of the friendship between a girl and a lion, set in Kenya)



"L'Amant" by Marguerite Duras (forbidden 1920s love story set in Vietnam/Indochina)



"Fanfan" by Alexandre Jardin (modern romantic comedy)



"L'Atlantide" by Pierre Benoit (love story/fantasy set in colonial French Africa/Algeria, in the 1920s)



You can find some of these books for free on BookMooch: http://www.bookmooch.co.uk/

Answer 8

Camus' L'étranger. Exupéry's, Le petit Prince. Troyat's, La Neige en Deuil. These are all quite short novels which you should be able to cope with.

There are some great French novels around, and novels written in French by Canadian and North African authors.

Answer 9

Years ago at school I read Albert Camus 'L'Etranger' but in my own time I read Francoise Sagan.

Now I am reading 'La Viellesse' by Simone de Beauvoir, but over the years I have really enjoyed (for example) the detective stories by Boileau-Narcejac. Also, Maigret (Georges Simenon) and Michel Tournier. I struggle with Daniel Pennac because I don't know if he is good or bad. I am very interested in young people's literature in French, which you can buy cheaply online at amazon.co.fr (Un jour un jules m'aimera by Yael Hassan, Un scenario beton by Roland Lamarre, Letters a qui vous savez by Herve Debry, Les cent mille briques by Jean-Louis Viot, Le Stoppeur by Roland Lamarre, etc). Also, try Azouz Begag - Le gone du Chaaba, and Beni ou le Paradis Prive.

I go to Paris regularly and stock up on books and music.

Answer 10

Papillon by Henri Charriere

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Answer 11

Good French Books

Answer 12

La Peste by Albert Camus, Le Ble en Herbe by Colette

I don't know the books yoy have read but i enjoyed these two. And why not try some of the old classics like Notre Dame de Paris.

Oh yeah get Papillon by Henri Charriere. It may not be "literature" but you won't want to put it down.

Answer 13

I agree that Camus is worth reading, try L'Etranger. Also, for relatively short books: Andre Gide's La Porte Etroite and L'Immoralist.

Answer 14

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