Anything good come from this area?

Russia exists

Anglozombie start heavy breathing

I have read the Rougon Macquart books and found them great and addictive, although depressing most of the time because the characters' lives are often described in all their mediocrity and ugliness. I guess they give a good insight on the way of life and the issues during the second empire, although I am no historian.
I dont know about his other works.

But, user, France had already produced a myriad of great writers by the time Russian literature became relevant. And even at their best (late 19th-early 20th) the Russians weren't better than the French.

For every great Russian writer there are ten great French writers.

Ok

Tolstoy - give me ten

Extremely correct and precise mathematical economics.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the greatest political philosopher who ever lived.

Baudelaire just the best poet.

Hugo
Zola
Tournier
Maupassant
Dumas
Montesquieu
Laclos
Camus
Chateaubriand
Balzac

Remy De Gourmont.

La Culture des idées
Physique de l'amour
Promenades philosophiques
Le Latin mystique
...etc

"L'âme est un mode et le corps est un mode, mais indistincts et fondus; l'âme est corporelle et le corps est spirituel."

lol user I agree with you but first I thought you wrote
>Duras
I laughed out loud.

Completely. I don't know much about Chinese, Japanese, Arabic or Russian poetry but I haven't read any English poet who even come close to Beaudelaire.

Literature is literally the greatest pride of the French, my dude

No. Pretentious country and pretentious people.

I don't really like realism/naturalism as a literary current, so Zola isn't really my thing, but I still must recognize that I sometimes had pleasure reading him (Le Docteur Pascal, La Bête humaine...).

Hugo
Balzac
Flaubert
Baudelaire
Rimbaud
Molière
Racine
Céline
Gide
Proust

Mallarmé
Huysmans
Stendhal
Nerval
Diderot
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Rabelais
Montaigne
Du Bellay

Rousseau
Valéry
Corneille
Apollinaire
Yourcenar
La Fontaine
Ionesco
Pérec
Mauriac
Bernanos

Too easy really. I love Russian literature but good luck finding thirty Russian writers who match those. And I left out plenty of famous ones like Sartre, Camus, Beauvoir, Malraux, Maupassant...

The masterpiece itself

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le bible

Idk but every single shitty ideology can be traced back to France.

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Every single good ones too.
Actually, every single thing, good or bad, can be traced back to France.

>Cretino delle Troie

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nothing

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>read Three Musketeers as a kid
>always see the French people as stalwart and adventurous, with maybe a touch too much passion

>grow up and read more Froglit
>it's almost all self-loathing and fornication and masturbatory philosophy

Larteguy is cool though.

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>Proust
>Flaubert
>Moliere
>Hugo
>Rabelais
>Montaigne
>Chretian
>Zola
>Ballsack
>Baudelaire
>Rimbaud
>Verlaine
>Huysmans
>Genet
>Valery
>Mallarme
>Verne
>Dumas
>Maupassant
>Racine
>Celine
>Artaud
>Camus
>Breton
>Pascal
>Nerval
>Cocteau
>Roussel
>Perec
>Queneau
>Chateaubriand
>Lautreamont
>Vigny
>La Rouchefoucald
>Stendhal
>Camus
>Colette
>Duras
>Fayette
>Fournier
>Gide
>Sand
>Sade
>Barbey d'Aurevilly
>Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
>Robbe-Grillet
>Mauriac
>Schwob
>Jarry
>Mirbeau
>Barbusse
>Bataille
>Gracq
>Daumal
>Anouilh
>Ionesco
>Klossowski
>Breton
>Des Forêts
>Ponge
>Perse
>Bonnefoy
>Radiguet
>Butor
>Sollers
>Guyotat
>Tournier
>Malroux
>Houellebecq
>Bergson
>Deleuze
>Derrida
>Foucault
>Baudrillard
>Lyotard
>Lacan
>Barthes
>Blanchot
>Guattari
>Levinas
>Levi-Strauss
>Bachelard
>Merlau-Ponty
>Weil

Hugo but that's about it. French political philosophy is just one massive inferiority complex masquerading under a stereotypically French ego.

The entire country is still reeling from the embarrassment of WW2.

The most charming book that I've ever read. Goodnight sweet prince...

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St Exupery's early writing on being a pilot is pretty good.

>>Proust
>>Flaubert
resi is filler, get fuckt

t. absolute illiterate

Flaubert
Hugo
Sartre
Celine
Camus

Valery was Italian.

The russian nobility spoke french kek

Imagine being the deluded frenchie who keeps posting this and meme copy-paste list every single day

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Funny how you mention a lot of languages (even second-rate ones like Arabic and Japanese) and no Italian, the language of music and poetry by definition.

Leopardi was better than Baudelaire.

can we all agree that camus sucks?

No one thinks Camus is good, mate.

t.italian

Why Camus and Sartre instead of, say, Mallarmé, Corneille, La Fontaine, Char, Montaigne, Verlaine or Chateaubriand?

nice argument

Lol, no. I'm not Italian. Instead, it's pretty cringe how most of these posts (, , , ) are clearly made by French.

t.italian

Keep believing what you like, buddy.

they all suck, camus and sartre included

>I hate literature

Yours wasn't very substantial either

What's the problem with Bonnefoy? or Nerval? or Perse for example?

Hey it's okay if your country don't have any good poetry.
Leopardi is a mid-tier poet, better than Dante but not that good. Most of the poems from the flowers of evil are better than anything Leopardi have written.

Again, I'm not Italian. Also, your bait post goes into the trash, sorry dude. Leopardi is being increasingly recognised as the greatest poet of the 19th century.

Please, fellow anglos, forget Camus and Sartre. They're not even among our top 50 writers.

>implying you have 50 writers that can form a worthwhile list
lel

this thread is proof that Yea Forums is full of kids

>His national canon is so weak he thinks having 50 worthy writers is a lot

Proust?

Barthes is top-tier imo

>No one unable to read French thinks Camus is good, mate.

What even is your point?

The point is I'm gay

You mean that being french and spending the entire night posting random names of french writers that you have never read just to fulfil your chauvinism is juvenile? Yeah, I agree.

Racine
Corneille
Rabelais
Stendhal
Flaubert
Rivarol
Voltaire
Agrippa d'Aubigné
Alain-Fournier
Honoré d'Urfé
Pascal

>that you have never read

>projecting this hard

camus sucks in french too

Tolstoy
Dostoyevsky
Pushkin
Gogol
Turgenev
Lermontov
Chekhov
Goncharov
Gorky
Korolenko
Kuprin
Leskov
Mamin-Sibiryak
Garshin
Saltykov-Shchedrin
Stanyukovich
Bestuzhev-Marlinsky
Grigorovich
Pomyalovsky
Karamzin
Radishchev
Merezhkovsky
Andreev
Belinsky
Uspensky
Griboyedov
Derzhavin
Bunin
Pisemsky
Sologub

meh

Hippolyte Taine. I'm on Vol. 1 of Les Origines de la France contemporaine and it's mesmerizing.

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He's right tho. It's crazy how stupid journalists are.

what is this faggot even doing

preparing to dab

Fuck you I like Camus

Kant and Hegel. unironically, Germans are Frankified CeltsCoin Flip: Heads

I'm also not italian and I agree. Italian is the single most beautiful modern language, written or spoken

Based and romanticismpilled

some real zzz after the first 5 or so