French Literature

Companions to Literature

The following companions and guides will provide valuable insights into French literature.

 The Oxford companion to French literature 840.3 OXF  A short history of French literature 840.9 BRE  The Concise Oxford dictionary of French literature 840.3 CON  The new Oxford companion to literature in French 840.3 NEW  Guide to modern world literature / Vol.2, [includes French literature] 809.04 SEY  A guide to contemporary French literature: from Valery to Sartre. 840.90091 FOW  La littérature française du 20e siècle by S. Jouanny 842.91 JOU

Poetry French poetry can be found at class mark 841. We have works by Aragon, Guillaume Apollinaire, Baudelaire, André Breton, George Brassens, Aimé Césaire, René Char, Edouard Glissant, Michel Houellebecq, Victor Hugo, Abdelkébir Khatibi, Laforgue, Lapaque, Lautréamont, Mallarmé, Michaux, Francis Ponge, Jacque Prévert, Renaud, Rimbaud, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Boris Vian, Verlaine, as well as anthologies of material such as Laurent and Nepveu’s La poésie Québécoise, and Poètes francais des XIXe et XXe siècles. For critical studies of French poetry see Bloom, H. (ed) (1990) French poetry: the Renaissance through 1915 and Verdier, L. (2001) Introduction à la poésie modern et contemporaine. Drama Plays written in French can be found at class mark 842. We have works by Jean Anouilh, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Aimé Césaire, Paul Claudel, Marguerite Duras, Jean Genet, Michel de Ghelderode, Jean Giraudoux, Jean-Claude Grumberg, Eugene Ionesco, Alfred Jarry, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Eugene Labiche, George Feydeau, Marivaux, Moliére, René de Obaldia, André Obey, Jean Racine, Jean-Paul Sartre, Nathalie Sarraute, Jean Tardieu, Michel Tremblay and Michel Vinaver.

Novels Literature in French can be found at class mark 843. We have the following authors Alain-Fournier, Christine Angot, Balzac, René Barjavel, Georges Bataille, Simone de Beauvoir, Azouz Begag, Calixthe Beyala, Samuel Beckett, Christian Bobin, Rachid Boudjedra, André Breton, Michel Butor, Albert Camus, Céline, Patrick Chamoiseau, Mehdi Charef, Andrée Chedid, Bernard Clavel, Maryse Condé, Arlette Cousture, Didier Daeninckx, Marie Darrieussecq, Alphonse Daudet, Régine Deforges, Philippe Delerm, Mohammed Dib, Assia Djebar, Margaret Duras, Jean Echenoz, Annie Ernaux, Claire Etcherelli, Nabile Farès, Gustav Flaubert, Frédéric H. Fajardie, David Foenkinos, Anatole France, Jean Genet, Sylvie Germain, André Gide, Jean Giono, Edouard Glissant, Faïza Guène, Hervé Guibert, Eric Holder, Michel Houellebecq, Alexandre Jardin, Alfred Jarry, Joseph Joffo, Abdelkébir Khatibi, Laforgue, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Richard Millet, Nerval, Baroness Orczy, Marcel Proust, Raymond Queneau, Raymond Radiguet, Jules Roy, George Sand, Georges Simenon, Leila Slimani, Stendhal, Vercors, Boris Vian, and Voltaire.

Translations Translations of French language works into English will be kept with the Fiction collection in the Silent Zone on the third floor which is arranged alphabetically by author surname, so F VOL would be the classmark for works by Voltaire in English.

Ebooks See Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Hathi Trust and Gallica for freely available French literature online.