French fiction
Stories from Paris
Fiction written by French authors or set in France, or literature in the French language.
The term encompasses novels, short stories, and other narrative prose from France's literary tradition: She studied nineteenth-century French fiction, focusing on Balzac and Flaubert.
French fiction has been particularly influential in shaping realism, naturalism, and existentialist literature.
- lyrical proseProse with musical quality
- Victor HugoFrench nineteenth-century novelist
- social critiqueExamination of societal problems
- novelNew and unusual
- ColetteWrote about Gigi
Émile Zola · Gustave Flaubert · Marcel Proust · stream of consciousness · existential angst · fairy tale · literary salon · café culture · short story · Albert Camus · fable · class struggle · Jean-Paul Sartre · poetic imagery · fin de siècle · modernist literature · Madame Bovary · The Stranger
French fictionAmerican fiction
Prose from the States
Russian fiction · Japanese fiction · British fiction · English fiction
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