Any must read french books /lit/? Looking to practice my french.

>>8667847
la princesse de clèves

>>8667847
L'histoire de l'oeil

Les Misérables
Germinal
Le Comte de Monte Cristo
Bel-Ami
All fantastic novels

But if your French ain't that good and you want to practice with something easier before moving on to quality lit you could try Amélie Nothomb, she's not great with a capital G but her books are funny and easy to read and not exactly trash 'roman de gare' either.

Or you could tell us what you like so that we could give you more specific advice

>>8667862
Im looking for something that makes me question what i read. Something philosophical or a good fiction that does this

>>8667847
Le Petit Prince est facile

>>8667847
>>8667869
ignore all posts (especially the first one) but mine and read voyage au bout de la nuit from louis-ferdiand céline.

>>8667897
I'd argue the language would be too confusing for someone who doesn't master French but otherwise it's good advice

There's also the obvious L'Etranger, de Camus.

>>8667847
Sartre's Nausea is a good struggle-but-huge-payoff read and Camus is of course the first serious book you should go for.

Avoid poetry at first; you can skip words or use sparknotes to spot check difficult parts of a novel, with poetry you need to know every single word.

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>>8667862
>Amélie Nothomb
>not exactly trash

>>8667897
Too hard

Bonjour OP! You could read this shit >>8667897, or slog through Zola and Dumas >>8667862, but why? When you can read a ~100 page novella that is the earliest "subversive" novel in the French tradition? It's great, and it's even weitten in modern french.

La Princesse de Clèves is fantastic and readily available in English speaking markets due to its popularity as an educational text. Ignore the hater, it's probably just Nicolas Sarkozy in disguise.

>>8668013
That's funny, I was assuming whoever keeps posting about it was a beyond-dedicated Sarkozy hater from back then

>>8668012
Ok, alright, I like reading one of her novellas once in a while, it's better than YA or shit like Yann Moix , Marc Levy and what-have-you, let me have that guilty pleasure

>>8668086
>>8668013
Did Sarkozy shit on La Fayette? I somehow missed that episode.

To add to the thread topic, why not trying a play? That's an easy way to get into a language

Some recs :
Huis Clos, Sartre (short, somewhat philosophical)

Antigone, Jean Anouilh

Any Molière

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>>8668135
>Did Sarkozy shit on La Fayette?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/5013742/French-protest-by-reading-Nicolas-Sarkozys-least-favourite-book.html

>>8668086
I also legitimately like the book

>>8667992
>Sartre's Nausea is a good struggle-but-huge-payoff read
>Nausea is a good struggle-but-huge-payoff read
>Nausea is a good
>Nausea
>good
Absolutely disgusting.

>>8668607
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/5013742/French-protest-by-reading-Nicolas-Sarkozys-least-favourite-book.html
Kek
To be fair though, it's just one book, it's not enough of a proof that Sarkozy is a philistine or anything although I'm inclined to think so

>>8667862

Read Exupéry, might still be difficult for you, but easier than most, and he's also a geat author.

>>8668135
Sarkozy doesn't like it but the reason it came up is he thought it shouldn't be on the civil service test which I think is fair point.

>>8668704
>>8668784
personally i love the idea of a bunch of FEMEN whores reading <<...ce qui seul peut faire le bonheur d'une femme, qui est d'aimer son mari et d'en être aimée>> just to spite that LR coward.

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>>8667847
La Belle Dame Sans Merci

<<La blancheur de son teint et ses cheveux blonds lui donnaient un éclat que l'on n'a jamais vu qu'à elle>>

>>8668704
>>8668784
>"A sadist or an idiot, up to you, included questions about 'La Princesse de Cleves' in an exam for people applying for public sector jobs," he said,
Yea, it sounds like the Vilain Nabot is right on that one