The French Novel: Monomaniacal Obsession

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Candide

by Voltaire

One of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. Witty, caustic skewering of romance, science, philosophy, religion, government — nearly all human …
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Les Liaisons dangereuses

by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The …
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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

A magnificent story set against the political upheaval in France during the post-Napoleonic era.
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Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand CĂ©line

A nihilistic petit-bougeois named Bardamu opens his medical practice in the slums of suburban Paris.
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In Search of Lost Time

by Marcel Proust

The first installment of the French author's multivolume autobiographical novel, originally published in 1913, in which he recalls his childhood and first infatuation.
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Our Lady of the Flowers

by Jean Genet

Jean Genet's masterpiece, composed entirely in the solitude of his prison cell. With an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel …
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The Stranger

by Albert Camus

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an …
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Two Novels

by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Jealousy: "In a tropical jungle overlooking a banana plantation, a jealous husband is obsessed by his suspicion of adultery between his wife and his neighbor. …
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