What French pieces are considered mandatory? Voltaire I

>>10012635
go out and git yourself Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel. make sure you avoid the screech translation.

>>10012635
Perec - La vie mode d'emploi is the modern classic!

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
(And Salammbo)

>>10012635
WHY MUST YOU TORMENT ME SO WITH THESE JEZEBELS?

In Search of Lost Time

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>>10012660
Thanks you guys, I really appreciate it. I'll make sure to check out all of these.

>>10012658
Been a while since i've heard this one. I chuckled :^)

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>>10012635

Middle Ages:
>Le roman de Renard (Lorris and Meung)
>Tristan et Yseut (Beroul and Thomas)
>Chanson de Rolland
>Rutebeuf, Villon and Grands Croniqueurs/rhetoriqueurs
Renaissance:
>Rabelais
>Agrippa d'Aubigne
>Montaigne

>>10012635
Voltaire is not even remotely near the essentials of French literature.

>>10012640
Why so much hate for Screech? I really enjoyed his Montaigne, and he's better than Cohen.

>>10013623
>t. Michel Tournier