So why don't the Frenchies have a Shakespeare, a Dante or

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Yes it can, and yes they do

They got Rimbaud and Baudelaire what else do you fucking want?

they were busy preparing a political system that will dominate the world.

but hey, they did catch up after that was done. and did it like a true boss.

Racine is the master playwright, Moliere close second
Baudelaire the poetry tete d'affiche

>>8730439
They also got Mallarmé, Valéry, Perse, Char... in fact i'd say they got a rich poetic tradition.

They've got Hugo

>>8730421
They have Chrétien de Troyes though

Mòliere?

what is better?
have only one author worthy in three or four centuries
have dozens of great authors in three or four centuries and none becoming world icons

I think the same can be said for Russia and Spain

>>8730708

First, definitely. Shakespeare is at least three (3) Tolstoys, maybe 3,5.

i think op means a great classic. that they dont have

>>8730421
wtf does this mean

Baudelaire, Mallarme, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Valery

>>8730655

As someone who's read half of moliere (in English) I wasn't impressed.

I wasn't impressed by a lot of plays I read, is it supposed to be all in the delivery? I haven't read any Brecht yet but I read plenty classical and Victorian era playwrights from each country.

>>8730421
This is the same as asking why the brits don't have a Cervantes, Proust or Dostoyevsky

>>8732433
How will brits ever recover?

None of you Eurofags have a Melville though

¿Cuando tendrán los anglofonos su propio Borges?
Déjense de chingaderas y pónganse a escribir, gringos.

>>8730629
Hugo Boss was a nazi wtf I hate nazis now¿¡

>>8732518
>Hugo Boss was a Nazi

But he wrote so much about the downtrodden and the tossed aside people.

Although in Les Miserables, I do recall him trashing some random Jewish guy, and also calling black people niggers/negros. And this was in France, which was supposed to be more tolerant

>>8732528
Rimbaud uses the N word too in his first book
wtf i hate boipucci now

>>8732534
We should just purge all books written before 1950 to be honest, get rid of all the racism and homophobia.

>>8730427
Are you retards ignoring Rabelais? Not to mention Chretien de Troyes and François Villon.

>>8730708
Spain has a bunch of foundational authors actually, Lupe de Vega, Cervantes and the dude who wrote El Cantar de Mio Cid, whoever he was, and that's from the top of my head.

You people meme Shakespeare to death but never realize both Rabelais and Cervantes are leagues ahead of him.

>>8732557
How the fuck is Cervantes "leagues" ahead of Shakespeare
If anything they are both in the godtier league

>>8732566
Honestly, at this point I think I have a serious antipathy to Shakespeare thanks to anglos promoting him to godtier while also making threads like this, ignoring Rabelais (when I started to seriously get into literature, they were my holy trinity tbqh), so, I'm sorry.

I'm just sick of Shakespeare, that's all.

>>8732599
Rabelais is first reply

Voltaire

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>>8732599

>I'm just sick of Shakespeare, that's all.

Success breeds jealousy.

>>8732168
>As someone who's read half of moliere (in English) I wasn't impressed.
Neither am I. By you, that is.

Who are Rabelais, Racine, Corneille, Hugo and the countless modernist and impressionist poets?

>>8732534
>you will never fugg a depressed gay frenchboy that writes symbolist poetry
why live

>>8732168
>read half of moliere (in English)
>read half of moliere (in English)
>read half of moliere (in English)

>>8730421

>nasal vowels
>poetry

pick one.
HEEGN HEEGN HEEGN HUGHN HUGHN HUGHN

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Oh, OP, you just don't know. One word:
Perceforest.
(first printed in Paris in 1528, as La Tres Elegante Delicieux Melliflue et Tres Plaisante Hystoire du Tres Noble Roy Perceforest in four volumes).