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View Poll Results: Favorite French Novel | |||
Madame Bovary | 2 | 20.00% | |
Les Miserables | 6 | 60.00% | |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 1 | 10.00% | |
Les amities particulieres | 0 | 0% | |
Paul et Virginie | 0 | 0% | |
Three Laws of Robotic Sexuality | 0 | 0% | |
Baise-Moi | 0 | 0% | |
Pardonnez nos offenses, "Forgive Our Sins" Seattle you might like this one | 1 | 10.00% | |
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05-18-2008, 05:13 PM | #1 |
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Favorite French Novel
There are many so listing a few is unfair, but what the hell, I'll give it a try. Not the highest quality novel, but your favorite, if I don't and probably won't list it. I should have put Proust's "In Search of Lost Time," but I haven't read it, so it could not be named.
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What? No Camus?
Doubtful that you are l'estranger to his work. What gives?
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05-18-2008, 08:05 PM | #3 |
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My vote is for The Count of Monte Cristo.
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05-18-2008, 08:47 PM | #4 |
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L'Etranger is a good work, but it's not my favorite. French existentialism is interesting nonetheless.
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I like him a lot. He is an interesting persona.
The Plague, The Fall, The Rebel, and several of his other essays are all very interesting. My favorite French book is my favorite book of all time...Les Miserables.
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Madame Bovary is often mentioned as a contender with War and Peace and Anna Karenina for greatest novel ever written. It has the most dusturbing scene I've ever read in literature. Someone you've come to care about slowly dies of arsenic poisoning over an entire chapter, amid the most thoughtless and incompetent efforts to ease her spiritual torment and suffering. I think I see the world in much the same way as did Flaubert.
This "poll" is of course missing a zillion contenders including masterworks by not only Camus but Stendahl and others.
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The problem with picking several favorite French novels is the sheer volume which have made it into English speaking mainstream. With Russians, we're not being invaded at the same rate. I can't even name the same number of Spanish language novels and certainly not from Italian or any other language. Chinese works are interesting that have made it into translation. So you grew to care about Emma? I found her too self-absorbed and much preferred Anna Karenina to Emmay Bovary, but Flaubert's "le mot juste" makes the French fun to read. I wish I read Russian but alas we'll have to rely upon Mudphud Coug.
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So, did any of those Emmanuelle movies come from novels?
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This thread has 108 views but only 9 votes. See you should have included Babar the elephant.
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