La confession d'un enfant du siècle

8 best books like La confession d'un enfant du siècle (Alfred de Musset): La Curée, Les Fleurs du Mal, Gargantua and Pantagruel, The Princesse de Clèves, Sentimental Education, Smoke, Against Nature, Pierre et Jean

AuthorÉmile Zola
ISBN2253003662
A la fin d’une chasse, pendant la curée, les chiens dévorent les entrailles de la bête tuée. Pour le jeune Zola, qui déteste son époque, c’est le cœur de Paris, entaillé par les larges avenues de Napoléon III, que des spéculateurs véreux s’arrachent. Ce deuxième volume des Rougon-Macquart,...
Les Fleurs du Mal
AuthorCharles Baudelaire
ISBN0879234628
After reading Baudelaire, I suddenly find myself wanting to smoke cigarettes and say very cynical things while donning a trendy haircut. Plus, if I didn't read Baudelaire, how could I possibly carry on conversations with pretentious art students?

In all seriousness, though, I wish my French...
AuthorFrançois Rabelais
ISBN0140445501
The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c.1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world.

Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable...
The Princesse de Clèves
AuthorMadame de La Fayette
ISBN0192837265
***Advance Review Copy generously provided through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.


Well, I have to say the moment I saw this book I thought that it would be about Anne of Cleves a.k.a. the luckiest wife of Henry VIII.

I never heard about the book The Princess of Clèves...
Sentimental Education
AuthorGustave Flaubert
ISBN0140447970
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as “the moral history of the men of my generation.” It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux,...
AuthorIvan Turgenev
It never ceases to amaze me how Russian writers can take a tale of love gone wrong and the every day ennui of a relationship and turn it into a political ridden statement. Turgenev excels at this, perhaps even more than Tolstoy or Gogol.

In Smoke, a young man stops in Baden-Baden on his way back to...
Against Nature
AuthorJoris-Karl Huysmans
ISBN0140447636
With a title translated either as Against Nature or as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-de-siècle novel follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous...
Pierre et Jean
AuthorGuy de Maupassant
ISBN0543898466
Pierre, médecin, ne comprend pas pourquoi un ami de sa famille a légué sa fortune à Jean, son frère cadet. Au terme d'une véritable enquête policière, il mettra au jour un terrible secret. Le quatrième roman de Maupassant (1850-1893), publié en 1888, est sans doute le meilleur. Le récit,...
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