French novel
Gallic prose work
A French novel is a novel written in French or by a French author.
The term sometimes carries connotations of literary sophistication, psychological depth, or frank treatment of sexuality and romance: She was reading some French novel about doomed love.
In older usage, "French" often implied risqué content.
- RomanceLatin-descended language group
- Victor HugoFrench nineteenth-century novelist
- ColetteWrote about Gigi
- RealismMovement depicting ordinary life
- ExistentialismPhilosophy of radical freedom
Gustave Flaubert · human condition · Émile Zola · Alexandre Dumas · Marcel Proust · stream of consciousness · Parisian life · belle époque · literary salon · café society · Left Bank · Symbolism · Albert Camus · Modernism · Les Misérables · Madame Bovary · Jean-Paul Sartre · The Stranger
- world literatureworld literature, American literature, Japanese fiction, African American literature, translated works
- French LiteratureVictor Hugo, Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Dumas, Jules Verne
- BalzacBeatrix, Lucien, The Black Sheep, recurring characters, literary realism
- translated bookstranslations, translated works, translated classics, literary translations, Bible translations
French novelFrench poetry
Verse from France
French drama · oral tradition · lyric poem · haiku · sonnet
French novelpulp fiction
Sensational cheap literature
dime novel · penny dreadful · airport novel · beach read · comic book
French, novel, France, Frenchman, Frenchwoman, novels, novelist, novella, novelette