May / France Reading Poll

[NickAdams]

I would like to nominate Sartre's Wall.

[thelastmelon]

If it's not too much trouble, I'd like to take my nomination back. There were a lot of other good nominations, so I don't feel The Empire of Darkness by Christian Jacq has to be included. Thank you.

Asked the french guy in work to recommend a book so i could nominate it. So this is it. not sure if its been done lately.
Candide by Voltaire

I bought this book last week, so this could have my vote!

[Niamh]

Looks like i made the right choice for a change!

[Remarkable]

I would like to nominate "Ninety Three" by Victor Hugo.

[Scheherazade]

We have got the 10 nominations we need. Thanks, all!

1. Papillon by Henri Charriere

2. Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne

3. Ninety Three by Victor Hugo

4. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

5. Candide by Voltaire

6. The Red and the Black by Stendhal

7. A Woman's Life by Guy de Maupassant

8. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais

9. The Lover by Margurite Duras

10. Wall by Sartre

[bazarov]

Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame

[NickAdams]

Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame

I might have voted for that one.

[JBI]

Emile Zola's Germinal (or wait, do I want to nominate Nana).

[manolia]

I might have voted for that one.

Yeah me too..too bad it's too late.

[Dori]

Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame

I might have voted for that one.

Yeah me too..too bad it's too late.

Yes, I would have voted for it as well. Better yet, I would have nominated it myself if it hadn't already been previously read in this book club.

http://www.online-literature.com/for...ead.php?t=2430

[Niamh]

yes but that was back in 2004, and there is a two year exempt period so it would possibly have been allowed...

[Scheherazade]

Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Emile Zola's Germinal (or wait, do I want to nominate Nana).

We have already got the 10 nominations we need so unless someone withdraws their nominations, yours will not be included in the poll.

[Dori]

yes but that was back in 2004, and there is a two year exempt period so it would possibly have been allowed...

We have already got the 10 nominations we need so unless someone withdraws their nominations, yours will not be included in the poll.

Very well then. Would it be alright if I withdrew my nomination (Five Weeks in a Balloon ~ Jules Verne) and replaced it with bazarov's nomination (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame ~ Hugo)?

[Etienne]

Who cares, aren't we all voting for Gargantua and Pantagruel anyways?

A little publicity:

Had Rabelais never written his strange and marvellous romance, no one would
ever have imagined the possibility of its production. It stands outside other things--a mixture of mad mirth and gravity, of folly and reason, of childishness and grandeur, of the commonplace and the out-of-the-way, of popular verve and polished humanism, of mother-wit and learning, of baseness and nobility, of personalities and broad generalization, of the comic and the serious, of the impossible and the familiar. Throughout the whole there is such a force of life and thought, such a power of good
sense, a kind of assurance so authoritative, that he takes rank with the greatest; and his peers are not many. You may like him or not, may attack him or sing his praises, but you cannot ignore him. He is of those that die hard. Be as fastidious as you will; make up your mind to recognize only those who are, without any manner of doubt, beyond and above all others; however few the names you keep, Rabelais' will always remain.

Gargantua and Pantagruel is probably the most fundamental work of French literature, an equivalent to Shakespeare plays in English, Don Quixote in Spanish or The Divine Comedy in Italian, but it also stands as one of the most fundamental works of world literature.

If you do not believe me at how great this work is, then vote for it and you'll see for yourself!

[Virgil]

Gargantua and Pantagruel is probably the most fundamental work of French literature, an equivalent to Shakespeare plays in English, Don Quixote in Spanish or The Divine Comedy in Italian, but it also stands as one of the most fundamental works of world literature.

If you do not believe me at how great this work is, then vote for it and you'll see for yourself!

Haha, sneaky sort of way to get people to vote for it. But, while I have never read it, I do know of the reputation it carries and Etienne is right.