2006-12-19 13:18:17 · 3 answers · asked by bonnababe 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
candide, it's a french classic
2006-12-19 13:21:12 · answer #1 · answered by Carlos 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Victor Hugo - Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du Mal
Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Lady of the Camelias, The Black Tulip, The Man in the Iron Mask.
Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac
Francoise Sagan - everything from Bonjour Tristesse onward
Albert Camus - The Outsider (L'estranger)
Simone de Beavoir - The Second Sex
Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past
Michel Foucault - Madness and Civilization
Jean-Paul Sartre - everything!
Rimbaud - touts ses poemes!
Those are my favorites.
2006-12-19 21:28:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne. He is very wise, very tolerant, and has a lot to teach us today. He wrote between 1560 and 1590. He sometimes gets things comically wrong. In his essay "On Drunkeness," he rightly observes that other human vices try to heighten the senses, and drunkeness to overthrow the senses. But he also says that drunkeness is a harmless vice. In his essay "On Friendship," he says that only men, and not women, are truly able to form bonds of friendship. Otherwise, he gets everything pretty much right.
2006-12-19 22:12:55 · answer #3 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋