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François Charles Mauriac (French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʃaʁl moʁjak]; Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac; 11 October 1885 – 1 September 1970) was a French novelist, dramatist, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the Académie française (from 1933), and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1952).
The French Theater of the Absurd (1991) Hatzfeld, Helmut Anthony. Trends and styles in twentieth century French literature (1966) Higgins, Ian. "French Poetry of the Great War." AGENDA (2014) 48#3-4 pp: 159-170. Kidd, William, and Sian Reynolds, eds. Contemporary French cultural studies (Routledge, 2014) Kritzman, Lawrence D., and Brian J ...
[1] [2] France ranks first on the list of Nobel Prizes in literature by country. One of the first known examples of French literature is the Song of Roland, the first major work in a series of poems known as, "chansons de geste". [3] The French language is a Romance language derived from Latin and heavily influenced principally by Celtic and ...
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Robert Evans, editor, Song to a Seagull, collected Canadian songs and poems John Glassco, editor, The Poetry of French Canada in Translation, translated by English-speaking poets, including E. J. Pratt, Al Purdy, Leonard Cohen; and poetic lyrics from recent songs
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This category is for French novels written or published in the year 1970. ... Pages in category "1970 French ...
Note: List of years in poetry exists specifically for poetry. See Table of years in literature for an overview of all "year in literature" pages. Several attempts have been made to create a list of world literature. Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing
The modern French language does not have a significant stress accent (as English does) or long and short syllables (as Latin does). This means that the French metric line is generally not determined by the number of beats, but by the number of syllables (see syllabic verse; in the Renaissance, there was a brief attempt to develop a French poetics based on long and short syllables [see "musique ...