{"id":7693,"date":"2011-06-24T12:39:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T16:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=7693"},"modified":"2014-06-12T19:27:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T17:27:46","slug":"french-books-to-read-in-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-books-to-read-in-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"French Books to Read in the Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>C&#8217;est l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9, enfin!<\/strong><\/em> (It&#8217;s the Summer, finally!)<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Many friends of mine have been telling me as of late how they&#8217;re excited\u00a0to seize the opportunity of the sudden extra free time in their hands to catch up with\u00a0<em><strong>la lecture de loisir<\/strong><\/em> (leisure reading)&#8212;As opposed\u00a0 to the\u00a0force-fed textbook &#8220;reading assignments&#8221; of the school year- and they especially\u00a0asked me about some good book titles\u00a0to read<strong><em> en fran\u00e7ais<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Naturellement<\/em><\/strong>, not everyone is necessarily\u00a0into<strong> <em>&#8220;les classiques&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0but if you\u00a0are, and\u00a0are at a loss as to\u00a0where to begin, here is a\u00a0short list which should help you decide\u00a0<strong><em>par quel livre\u00a0entamer vos vacancs d&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em><\/strong> (through which book to kick-start your Summer holidays)&#8212;It&#8217;s of\u00a0 no particular order, so it&#8217;s all up to you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8220;<em><strong>Le Petit Prince<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;,<\/span> by\u00a0<strong>Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Le Petit Prince chapitre 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dvRIccSAHEw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">L&#8217;\u00c9tranger<\/span>&#8220;<\/strong>,<\/em>by\u00a0<strong>Albert Camus<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Phaedra<\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8221; by\u00a0<strong>Racine<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tartuffe ou L&#8217;Imposteur<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;, <\/em>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>L&#8217;\u00c9cole des femmes<\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;, or\u00a0<strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Le Bourgeois gentilhomme<\/em><\/span>&#8220;<\/strong>, all great works by\u00a0<strong>Moli\u00e8re<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Candide<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;,<\/em>by<strong>Voltaire<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>M\u00e9moires d&#8217;Outre-Tombe<\/em><\/span>&#8220;<\/strong> (meaning literally &#8220;Memoirs from Beyond the Grave&#8221;) by\u00a0<strong>Fran\u00e7ois-Ren\u00e9 de Chateaubriand<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Le Rouge et le Noir<\/strong><\/em><\/span>&#8221; (&#8220;The Red and the Black&#8221;), and &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>La Chartreuse de Parme<\/strong><\/em><\/span>&#8221; (&#8220;The Charterhouse of Parma&#8221;), by<strong> Stendhal<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Madame Bovary<\/em><\/span>&#8220;<\/strong> by<strong> Gustave Flaubert<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Here is a famous movie adaptation by\u00a0<strong>Claude Chabrol<\/strong>, with\u00a0the celebrated\u00a0actress\u00a0<strong>Isabelle Huppert<\/strong>:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TRAILER DO FILME Madame Bovary (FRAN\u00c7\u00caS)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kZcrUWCy8T0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>La B\u00eate humaine<\/em><\/span>&#8220;, <\/strong><em>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Germinal<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/em>, or<em> &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Aux Bonheur des Dames<\/strong><\/span><\/em>&#8221; (translated as &#8220;The Ladies&#8217; Delight<em>&#8220;,<\/em> or &#8220;The Ladies&#8217; Paradise<em>&#8220;<\/em>) by\u00a0<strong>\u00c9mile Zola<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong><em>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pierre et Jean<\/span>&#8220;<\/em><\/strong>, or\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bel Ami<\/span>&#8220;<\/em><\/strong>, by\u00a0<strong>Guy de Maupassant<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Notre-Dame de Paris<\/em><\/span>&#8220;, <\/strong>or, of course,\u00a0&#8220;<strong><em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;, by\u00a0<strong>Victor Hugo<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Pantagruel<\/strong><\/em><\/span>&#8221; or &#8220;<strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">La vie tr\u00e8s horrifique du grand Gargantua<\/span>&#8221; <\/em><\/strong>(often known\u00a0simply as\u00a0&#8220;Gargantua&#8221;), by <strong>Fran\u00e7ois Rabelais<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Eug\u00e9nie Grandet<\/em><\/span>&#8220;, or &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Le P\u00e8re Goriot<\/em><\/span>&#8220;, <\/strong>both from<strong> Honor\u00e9 de Balzac&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>La Com\u00e9die\u00a0Divine<\/em><\/span>&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Creative Quotations from Honore de Balzac for May 20\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H-8CjlzuGA8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu<\/strong>&#8221; <\/span>(&#8220;<\/em>In Search of Lost Time<em>&#8220;), or\u00a0<strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de chez Swann<\/span>&#8220;<\/strong> (&#8220;<\/em>The Way by Swann&#8217;s<em>&#8220;<\/em>), by<strong>Marcel Proust<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>Je souhaite une tr\u00e8s bonne et agr\u00e9able\u00a0lecture \u00e0 tous nos amis!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C&#8217;est l&#8217;\u00e9t\u00e9, enfin! 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