FrenchLiterature

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I keep reading this author's books despite feeling quite blasé about them. This one, in my defense, has an excellent cover. Title translates to Life Is a Novel.

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TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2w

catsuit_mango I ve read one or two of them but found them a bit basic on the plots and characters. 2w

vlwelser @catsuit_mango so basic. I need to stop reading them but they're everywhere (compared to others). 1w

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catsuit_mango @vlwelser that s why i stopped looking for booksgin train stations and airports, you get your choice of basic books : Musso, Levy and so on ;) 1w

vlwelser @catsuit_mango those are sometimes the only places I have access to that sell French books 1w

catsuit_mango @vlwelser Sorry i forgot to mention I am living in France ;) i have the same issue with finding books in english 1w

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sisilia

The Masterpiece | Emile Zola

I hope to finish this series this year 😜 Seems to be my annual resolution hahahaha but let‘s make it happen this time😅 I started this in January 2020, btw 🙈

LeahBergen Wow!! 3w

Ruthiella Allons-y! You can do it. 👍 3w

Leftcoastzen Wow , nice to see them all together, I‘ve read the first 2 years ago. 3w

erzascarletbookgasm What a great stack! 💪 3w

dabbe WOWZA! 🤩🤩🤩 3w

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sisilia

The Masterpiece | Emile Zola

Wooohoooo I just submitted my school assignment 😝 Now I can read!!!!! Hurrah 🥳

Tamra 👏🏾👏🏾 4w

Gissy 🙌👏👏👏👏 4w

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 4w

BarbaraBB Yay!🙌🏽 4w

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musaelbooks

Yoga | Emmanuel Carrere

Yoga di Carrère. Il mio primo post su Litsy, popoleremo questo social di italiani. Facciamoci sentire.
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Yoga by Carrère. My first post on Litsy, there‘ll be a lot of Italians there. Let‘s make some noise!
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#litsy #litsyitalia #libri #leggere #passione #lettura #bookstagramita #bookstagram #leggerechepassione #booktokita #italia #libri

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Cuilin

Les gratitudes | Delphine Vigan

Denise, @dabbe thank you so much. This gift truly touched my heart. The last few months have been so challenging as I learn more and more what a Lupus diagnosis means. Your kindness means more to me than words can express. I am having some good days that we‘re naming “Flair Downs”. Thank you again. Litsy folks truly are the best!! 🥰

dabbe Two new hashtags: #flairdowns and #fds! Glad to have put a smile on that lovely face. One day at a time, m'dear. You got this. 👊💪🫶 1mo

TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 1mo

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Taylor

Finding Time Again: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 7 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | Marcel Proust

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Phenomenal ending to an unreal work.

Mind-bendy, ultra-reflective and fascinating, feels like something written in the future.... Pretty often I'd say to myself "Yeah this is wild stuff," especially in the second half. Somehow he managed to end this thing without letting me down at all. I love it.

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Taylor

Finding Time Again: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 7 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | Marcel Proust

It seems now therefore that there is no humiliation so great that one should not put up with it easily, in the knowledge that after a few years our buried faults will be no more than an invisible dust over which will smile the smiling and blossoming peace of nature.

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oddandbookish

Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert, Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Alex Struik

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What a tragic yet captivating tale!

I added this book to my “To Read” shelf on Goodreads way back in March of 2015. Now 9 years later I finally read it and I‘m so glad I did.

There is nothing happy about this story, but it‘s beautiful and intriguing in its own way. Immediately upon starting, I was pulled right into the story.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2024/03/26/review-madame-bovary/

oddandbookish #book #booklover #bookstagram #bookworm #bibliophile #bookobsession #bookish #bookreviewer #booktok #library #readaway2024 #marvellousmarch #bookspinbingo #classic #classics #French #frenchliterature #canterburyclassics #madamebovary 2mo

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merelybookish

Modern Classics: In Search of Lost Time Volume 6 - Finding Time Again | Marcel Proust

I'M DONE!! 🎉🎉 After 15 months, I wrapped up #morningswithmarcel.
It was a journey and there were some rough spots, but overall, I loved it. Brilliant! 🌸💗🌸

AlaMich Which translation did you read? I haven‘t read Proust but I read a very interesting collection of essays by one of his translators, Lydia Davis. She described in great detail her process and the problems that came up while translating him. It was fascinating. (edited) 3mo

sarahbarnes Wow!!!! That is amazing. Congratulations - that has to feel like such an accomplishment! 3mo

merelybookish @AlaMich I did the Modern Penguin Library edition. Each volume has a different translator but Lydia Davis did the first one. I can imagine he's challenging to translate! His vocabulary is rich! (I googled so many words!) But there's a lot of word play and he notices when people use idiom or local dialects. 3mo

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squirrelbrain Well done! 🎉🎉🎉 3mo

Librarybelle Congratulations! 3mo

batsy Amazing! 🙌🏾 Someday I hope to get there 💫 3mo

BarbaraBB Wow, you did that pretty fast! Glad you loved it and kudos for finishing 🏆🤍 3mo

julieclair Congrats! That's an achievement! 🏆🎉 3mo

Ruthiella Congratulations! 👏👏👏 3mo

dabbe Yowza! 🤩🤩🤩 3mo

Cuilin Congratulations 🎊🎉🎈 impressive. 3mo

Billypar Oh my 😮 ...nice job! I always think maybe I'll read the first volume someday but never imagined reading them all. 3mo

LeahBergen Woohoo!! 🥳 3mo

jlhammar Impressive! 3mo

Tamra Amazing! 👏🏾 3mo

MaureenMc 👏🎊👏 3mo

Leftcoastzen Kudos! 3mo

merelybookish @squirrelbrain @Librarybelle @batsy @BarbaraBB @julieclair @LeahBergen @jlhammar @Tamra @MaureenMc @Leftcoastzen Thanks everyone! 🥰 3mo

merelybookish @Ruthiella @dabbe @Cuilin Thank you!!! I figured you guys would understand! 😊 3mo

merelybookish @Billypar if you read the first one, you might want to keep going! 3mo

Centique You are truly a legend! 3mo

Suet624 That's amazing. Such dedication! 3mo

vivastory 🤘 🤘 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 2mo

merelybookish @vivastory thanks Scott. I feel like when I saw you in December I was at a low point. But I managed to get through it. 2mo

vivastory I will attempt it at some point in the future, but have no idea if I'll make it through. I'd like to read at least the first couple. Do you have any more big projects on the horizon? 2mo

merelybookish @vivastory Not really. I am reading Woolf's diaries again. There's Zola 20 book series but not quite ready to commit to that. 😂😱 2mo

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Taylor

Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | Marcel Proust

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I loved it, but I had to read it like a possessed person to get through it.... Actually that‘s how it has been for me with all of Proust.

As usual with these editions, the translator's intro in the beginning is excellent.

Some of this installment is like a fever dream; a new type of Proust. Fantasies and dreams and memories flood the reader. The prose is incredible as always, the observations revelatory. I also gasped audibly at one part.

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