By category French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak other traditional non-French languages. ...
French Literary History
Medieval 16th Century - 17th Century 18th Century -19th Century 20th Century - Contemporary Medieval French literature is, for the purpose of this article, literature written in Oïl languages (including Old French and early Middle French) during the period from the eleventh century to the end of the fifteenth century. ... French Renaissance literature is, for the purpose of this article, literature written in French (Middle French) from the French invasion of Italy in 1494 to 1600, or roughly the period from the reign of Charles VIII of France to the ascention of Henri IV of France to the throne. ... Louis XIV King of France and Navarre By Hyacinthe Rigaud (1701) French literature of the Seventeenth Century encompases the reigns of Henry IV of France, the Regency of Marie de Medici, Louis XIII of France, the Regency of Anne of Austria (during which the civil war called the Fronde occurred... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
French Writers
Chronological list Writers by category Novelists - Playwrights Poets - Essayists Short Story Writers List of French speaking authors Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987) Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948) Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867), (Les fleurs du mal, 1857) Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986) Cyrano de Bergerac (March 6, 1619 - 1655) Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780...
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Claude Simon (10 October1913 – 6 July2005) was the 1985Nobel Laureate in Literature who in his novels combined the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition. Jump to: navigation, search October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2005 (Roman: MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of Alfred Nobel, produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ...
He was born in Tananarive/Antananarivo, Madagascar, and died in Paris, France. Antananarivo, population 802,000 (1997), is the capital of Madagascar, in Antananarivo province. ... Antanà narìvo (pronounced IPA [æntəˌnænəˈɹiËvoÊŠ] or [É‘ËntəˌnÉ‘ËnəˈɹiËvoÊŠ]), population 802,000 (1997), is the capital of Madagascar, in Antananarivo province. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...
Works
Le Tricheur/The Cheat 1945
La Corde Raide/The Tightrope 1947
Gulliver 1952
Le Sacre du printemps/The Anointment of Spring 1954
Le vent. Tentative de restitution d 'un rétable baroque/The Wind. Attempted Restoration of a Baroque Altarpiece 1957
L'Herbe/The Grass 1958
La Route des Flandres/The Flanders Road 1960
Le Palace/The Palace 1962
La Separation/The Separation 1963 (Play adapted from the novel L'Herbe)
Femmes/Women. Ill by Joan Miró. - New edition entitled La Chevelure de Bérénice/Berenice's Hair 1984
Histoire/Story 1967
La Bataille de Pharsale/The Battle of Pharsalus 1969
ClaudeSimon was born in Tananarive, on the island of Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa.
Simon's father, an army officer, was killed in 1914 in World War I. His childhood Simon spent in the city of Perpignan, near the Spanish border, where he was raised by his mother and her family.
Simon's picture of the Spanish Civil War and of the intellectual idealists who wanted to find an ideologically clear reason in the fight against oppression, shapes itself into a version, at once grotesque and tragic, compassionate and ironic, of war's reality and of man's inability to guide his fate and correct his conditions.
ClaudeSimon, the French novelist who has died aged 91, was one of the foremost exponents of le nouveau roman, the "new novel" style of the 1950s and 1960s which rejected the literary conventions of plot, narration and character development.
Claude Eugene Henri Simon was born in Madagascar on October 10 1913.
Simon, the first Frenchman to be awarded the Nobel prize for Literature since 1964, when Jean-Paul Sartre turned it down, reacted to the announcement of the award by saying that he would use the money to repair the roof of his house.
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