French authors and their books

The books of French authors I have read and reviewed in this blog (with links to the reviews):

Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850) The grand old man of French literature.

• Eugenie Grandet (1833)

Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

• Les Fleurs du Mal (poetry) (1857)

Albert Camus (Nobel laureate in 1957) (1913 - 1960)

• The Outsider (1942)
• The Myth of Sisyphus (non fiction) (1942)
• The Plague (1947)
• The Fall (1956)

Louis Ferdinand Celine (1894 - 1961)

• Journey to the End of Night (1932)

Jean Cocteau surrealist artist and film auteur (1889 - 1963)

• Les Enfants Terribles (1929)

Collette (1873 - 1954)

• The Cat (1933)
• Gigi (1944)

Virginie Despentes: (1969 - )

• Vernon Subutex 1 (2015)
• Vernon Subutex 2 (2015)
• Vernon Subutex 3 (2017)

Alexandre Dumas (pere) (1802 - 1870)

• The Count of Monte Cristo (1844 - 1846)

Alexandre Dumas (fils) (1824 - 1895)

• The Lady of the Camellias (1848)

Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)

• Madame Bovary (1857)

Pascal Garnier:

• C'est la vie

Jean Genet:

• The Thief's Journal

Andre Gide (Nobel Laureate in 1947) (1869 - 1951)

• The Immoralist (1902)
• Strait is the Gate (1909)
• The Vatican Cellars (1914)

Michel Houellebecq

• Atomised

Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

• Les Miserables (1862)
• The Last Days of a Condemned Man (short story)
• Claude Gereux (short story)

Patrick Modiano (Nobel Laureate in 2014)

• In the Cafe of Lost Youth
• The Black Bag

Irene Nemirovsky

• David Golder

Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)

• Delta of Venus

Georges Perec

• Portrait of a Man

Marcel Proust

• A La Recherche du Temps Perdu
• Volume 1: The Way by Swann's

Raymond Queneau

• Zazie in the Metro

Francois Sagan

• Bonjour Tristesse
• A Certain Smile

Nathalie Sarraute (1900 - 1999) Working in the nouveau roman school

• Tropismes (1939)

Georges Simenon prolific writer of detective stories

• The Yellow Dog: a Maigret crime novel

Stendahl

• The Red and the Black

Baptiste Thery-Guilbert 

• At the End of the Sidewalks

Michel Tournier

• The Golden Droplet

Jules Verne science fiction and more

• Around the World in Eighty Days

Voltaire

• Candide

Emile Zola (1840 - 1902)

• Therese Raquin (1867)
• Germinal (1885)
• The Masterpiece (1886)

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