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| vanityx3 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6452 days ago 331 posts - 326 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 1 of 5 27 February 2008 at 8:55am | IP Logged |
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Can anyone give me some recommendations on some books that have a main theme of war in them written in French? Non-fiction or Fiction works are both acceptable.
Anything about WWII or WWI around those time periods would be good. Maybe a work about the German occupation of France during WWII wrote from a French perspective. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Veig Triglot Newbie France Joined 6107 days ago 12 posts - 14 votes Speaks: French*, English, Danish Studies: Icelandic, Greenlandic | Message 2 of 5 27 February 2008 at 9:47am | IP Logged |
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The first 2 books I think about are Les croix de boisby Roland Dorgelès, and Un long dimanche de fiançailles by Sébastien Japrisot. The second book is more about some consequences of the war than the war itself, but it is very good anyway.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6461 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 3 of 5 27 February 2008 at 1:54pm | IP Logged |
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I liked "La joueuse de Go", written originally in French by Shan Sa, a Chinese author. It's about the conflict between China and Japan in the 30s and it won the Prix Goncourt.
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| vanityx3 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6452 days ago 331 posts - 326 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 4 of 5 28 February 2008 at 8:16am | IP Logged |
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Thank you for the help. I actually own the Japrisot book and it is quite a story.
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| guilon Pentaglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6183 days ago 226 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Spanish*, PortugueseC2, FrenchC2, Italian, English | Message 5 of 5 28 February 2008 at 11:49am | IP Logged |
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If you like war books, when you are at an advanced stage on your knowledge of French (or at any stage of it for that
matter) you should give a try to "Les Misérables". There are glorious depictions of Waterloo battle and 1830 revolution in Paris, in addition to being one of the summits of French literature. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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