French literature

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French literature is the body of written works produced in the French language, renowned for its influential contributions to world literature across genres such as poetry, novels, drama, and philosophy from the medieval period to the present.

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French literature canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literature
national literature
countryOfOrigin France
hasAward Nobel Prize in Literature
Prix Femina
Prix Goncourt
Prix Médicis
Prix Renaudot
hasCharacteristic influence on literary theory and criticism
strong philosophical tradition
use of refined prose style
hasGenre drama
essay
novel
philosophical writing
poetry
short story
hasInfluenceOn world literature
hasMovement existentialism
surface form: Existentialism

Naturalism
Nouveau roman
Realism
Romanticism
Surrealism
Symbolism
hasNotableAuthor Albert Camus
André Gide
Annie Ernaux
Arthur Rimbaud
Charles Baudelaire
François Rabelais
Gustave Flaubert
Honoré de Balzac
Jean Racine
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
Marcel Proust
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Yourcenar
Michel de Montaigne
Molière
Paul Verlaine
Pierre Corneille
Simone de Beauvoir
Stendhal
Victor Hugo
Voltaire
Émile Zola
hasNotableInstitution Académie française
hasNotableWork Candide
Gargantua and Pantagruel
Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
surface form: In Search of Lost Time

Les Misérables
Madame Bovary
Les Fleurs du mal
surface form: The Flowers of Evil

The Red and the Black
The Social Contract
The Stranger
hasPeriod 19th-century French literature
20th-century French literature
Classical French literature
Enlightenment literature
surface form: Enlightenment French literature

Renaissance French literature
contemporary French literature
medieval French literature
language French language

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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa influencedBy French literature
Vietnamese literature hasInfluence French literature
Gaudissart II literaryTradition French literature