Les grandes et inestimables croniques : du grant et enorme geant……
Written on December 20, 2007
It seems that everyone is compiling lists fit to educate the coming year. Classically trained, and not one to be culturally outdone, I have also compiled a short list of French Classics, save one: “The Golden Ass”.
I plan on re-reading them all in 2008. They are all available in French and in English and are truly great books. Do your own googling, I ain’t linking…. you might stumble upon something great, instead of following my leads. These are all books I read as a kid and remember vividly. Twelve in all, one per month.
1- Candide, Voltaire.
2- L’Ingénu, Voltaire.
3- La Chevelure, Guy de Maupassant.
4- Le Horla, Guy de Maupassant.
5- Gargantua, François Rabelais.
6- Pantagruel, François Rabelais.
7- The Golden Ass, Lucius Apuleius.
8- Michel Strogoff, Jules Verne
9- Les Mystères de Paris, Eugene Sue.
10- La Gloire de mon père, Marcel Pagnol.
11- Le Château de ma mère, Marcel Pagnol
12- Vol de nuit, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
PS: So much for those top tens, top twelve is where it’s out.