My Great Big Reading List
Here it is! These are the books that I’m trying to read this summer - in the future, some of them could be part of an exam reading list, but that is to be fully and officially built at a later date. I do not necessarily anticipate finishing this list in its entirety, but it’s got a whole lot of fairly different works on it.
I made it along a couple themes, just to narrow down my choices - very generally they were violence, war, bodies, and identity. I also added some that I was just interested in (see a few in the 18th and 19th centuries).
Not all of these have been easy to find online or in paper!
A final warning because Saint-Cyr and de Sade are both on there - be careful with those two books and be sure you want to read them prior to doing so - looking at their descriptions and being aware of de Sade, they deal with a lot of brutality. These aren’t really the kind of thing you’d read on a whim.
***Note that while reading over the summer before grad school is great, there is no actual requirement for doing so in most cases (in the US, at least as far as I know).***
Medieval
La Chanson de Roland
Lancelot (Charrette) - Chretien de Troyes
La Folie d'Oxford - Béroul
Erec et Enide - Chretien de Troyes
La Mort le roi Artur - (from the Vulgate-Grail, I think?)
Aucassin et Nicolette
Le Livre du voir dit - Guillaume de Machaut
La Prison amoureuse - Jehan Froissart
Le Livre de la cité des dames - Christine de Pizan
Le Petit Jehan de Saintré - Antoine de la Sale
Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles
Le Charroi de Nimes
16th Century
Les Tragiques - Agrippa d'Aubigné
Discours des misères de ce temps - Pierre de Ronsard
Histoires tragiques - Francois de Belleforest
Abraham sacrifiant - Théodore de Bèze
Lepante - Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas
la "Monomachie de David et de Goliath" - Joachim du Bellay
Porcie - Robert Garnier
La Rochelleide - Jean de la Gessée
Illustrations de Gaule et Singularitez de Troie - Jean Lemaire de Belges
Discours de la servitude volontaire - Etienne de la Boétie
Médée - Jean de La Péruse
Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais
17th Century
Oeuvres poétiques - Theophile de Viau
Le cid - Corneille
Andromaque, Phèdre, et Britannicus - Racine
Contes - Charles Perrault
Les Aventures de Télémaque - Fénelon
La Mort d’Achille, La Mort d'Alexandre, Coriolan - Alexandre Hardy
Dom Juan - Molière
18th Century
Le Diable amoureux - Jacques Cazotte
Le Paradox sur le comedien - Denis Diderot
La dispute - Pierre de Marivaux
L'Esprit des lois - Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu
Pauliska, ou la Perversité moderne - Jacques-Antoine de Reveroni Saint-Cyr*
Aline et Valcour - Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade*
L'emigré - Gabriel Senac de Meilhan
Paul et Virginie - Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Memoires du Comte de Comminge - Claudine-Alexandrine Guerin Tencin
Traité sur la tolerance - Voltaire
19th Century
Atala - Chateaubriand
La Chartreuse de Parme - Stendhal
La fille aux yeux d'or - Balzac
Lorenzaccio - Musset
Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné - Victor Hugo
La Sorcière - Michelet
Carmen - Merimée
La Morte Amoureuse - Gautier
Les fleurs du mal - Baudelaire
Les Diaboliques - Barbey d'Aurevilly
Boule-de-Suif / Mademoiselle Fifi - Maupassant
Les Chants de Maldoror - Leautreamont
Igitur - Mallarme
20th Century
Cahier d'un retour au pays natal - Césaire
Traversée de la mangrove - Condé
Les Bonnes - Jean Genet
Antigone - Anouilh
La femme de Job - Chedid
Nedjma - Kateb Yacine
Le Cimetiere marin - Valéry
La route des Flandres - Simon
Stèles - Segalen
La condition humaine - Malraux
La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu - Giradoux
Le dimanche de la vie - Queneau
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