France has always maintained its position as one of the most active centers of literature, and like many countries, its cultural sphere is dedicated to understanding and challenging social customs. Have you ever wondered why Paris is often referred to as the “City of Love”? Apart from the stunning beauty and very romantic lifestyle of the people of this country, some of the best love stories in the world have been written by the French.
France has been well-known in European intellectual culture for centuries, and its literature is no exception.
6 books to read with snowy weather for cold winter days
The political and philosophical revolutions that took place by the end of the eighteenth century in the name of science and reason were accompanied by changes in the form and content of French writing, and Romanticism was the dominant movement in European literature in the first half of the nineteenth century but relatively late in French literature. , But its authors played an important role in this movement.
In fact, in world literature, France has practically some of the most respected, popular and famous love stories; French classics in particular have been adapted many times, whether on stage, film or television, and French authors have published countless works that are known around the world.
In this article, we have introduced 6 books of the most famous and popular French love books and summarized them.
Madame Bovary Man French Romance
Madame Bovary is an English-language romance written by the famous French author Gustave Flaubert and first published in 1856. Madame Bovary tells the bitter story of a marriage that ends in tragedy. This book is one of Flaubert’s masterpieces and one of the most influential literary works in history.
Madame Bovary has long been considered one of the best romance novels and has been described as a “perfect” fiction. This novel is an example of the tendency of literary realism towards psychological content during the nineteenth century, which focuses on the accurate representation of thoughts and feelings instead of external issues.
The story of Madame Bovary takes place in a province near the city of Rouen in Normandy. Carlos Bovary married a widow after his childhood and after graduating from state school and college in Rouen, at the explicit request of his mother, and the relationship did not last long. Because his wife dies shortly after marriage.
After the death of his first wife, Charles has to visit Mr. Row on a farm because of his job as a doctor, where he meets and falls in love with his daughter, Emma, a young and beautiful girl, and the two eventually marry. .
But the main character of Madame Bovary’s book seeks to find the exact meaning of the word happiness, longing, love and pleasure, which seemed very good in the pages of books and novels. He was very interested in the novels of the great Scottish author Walter Scott.
In fact, one of the main themes throughout the book is Madame Bovary’s failure to reconcile the romantic and ambitious fantasies in the books with her own reality and rural life.
In a part of Madame Bovary’s book, we read:
Suddenly there was an uproar that rose to a louder melody with sharp screams. Suddenly it intensified behind the bench, and here and there a smirk, like a good cracker, did not go out. However, with the rain of fines, the order of my class was restored, and the secretary was able to understand the name of Charles Bovary, because he asked him to read it to him, to spell it, and to read it again after he had written it.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a beautiful and influential work by the famous French author Victor Hugo, first published in 1831 by many people such as Esfandiar Kavian, Tayebeh Hashemi, Mohammad Qesa, Javad Mohi Translated into Persian.
The story of Notre Dame’s Hedgehog takes place in Paris in the 15th century. The story focuses on the character of “Kazimudo” and his failed love for a beautiful gypsy woman named “Esmerlda”. Known as the Humpback Whale of Notre Dame, Casimodo is responsible for playing the bells of the most famous church in medieval Paris because of his strong body.
Kwasimodo meets Esmeralda at the Fools’ Day, an annual festival that mimics church rites and cardinal elections. During the festival, Quasimodo was called the “Pope of the Fools” because he was considered the ugliest person in Paris, and he was beaten by thugs during the ceremony. Esmeralda, who sees him in this situation, goes to his aid and gives him water to drink, and this is the spark for the beginning of the beautiful love story of Notre Dame’s humpback whale.
Notre Dame’s popular book The Humpback Whale with an opera, a ballet, several plays, two musics, and in addition to television adaptations, more than a dozen times for films, including a 1923 silent film starring Lan Chini, an 1939 audio film. Adapted from Charles Latin, and a 1996 Disney animated film starring Tom Holls.
In an excerpt from Notre Dame’s Hedgehog, we read:
Kazimudo was sitting on a bed, and students, including Polanes and Jean, were carrying him. You could hear all kinds of sounds and music from the crowd; Trumpets, circles, flutes and the noise of the people. The humpback smiles at the people walking the streets. For the first time in his life, he felt happy. He did not realize that these were just for fun and entertainment. Suddenly, the priest made his way through the crowd and removed the crown from Kazimudo. Pi Per said: Wait and see! I know this man. He is Claude Ferrell, Vice-Bishop of the Church of Notre Dame. What is he doing here?
Our perfect lady
Madame Camellia, The English title of The Lady of the Camellias, Alexandre Dumas’ most famous work, was first published in 1848. This is a semi-autobiographical novel based on the author’s brief love affair with a woman named Marie Duplessis.
The novel takes place in the mid-nineteenth century in France and tells the story of a sad love affair between a notorious woman named Margaret Gauthier, nicknamed Madame Camellia, and a bourgeois young man, Armand Duvall. Margaret is known for her revelry among the people of the city, but despite all this, Armand does not give up her love.
Armand asks her to live with him in the village, and Margaret initially gives up her past work because of Armand’s sincere love, and lives with him in a small house away from the city. Armand’s father is worried about this relationship and begs him to leave his son because of the family’s reputation. Camelia leaves him with a letter to Armand, and Armand thinks that Margaret has left him for another man.
As important as understanding what makes a healthy relationship, the skill of knowing how to recognize it can also save us from suffering.
Madame Camelia is a unique and inspiring masterpiece of numerous works of art, such as the opera La Traviata (1853) and more than twenty plays and films, and has fascinated most choreographers, of which John Neumeier is one of the most famous. In fact, Alexander has amazed and fascinated several generations with this extraordinary work.
In an excerpt from Madame Camelia, we read:
Why should I, who had neither wealth nor perfect masculine beauty, and in spite of all this delicate sensitivity, constantly point to the human dignity and eyebrows, and all the human virtues of manhood, masculinity, honor, virtue and reputation be trampled underfoot? Ninth, and because I surrender my involuntary slaves to the demon of lust and affectionate love. A lover who has unequivocally promised these promises to everyone over and over again out of lust, and it will not be long before his hard-hearted and rebuked man hits me and his delicate heart is offended by my behavior and speech, and our work is separated from bitterness. And bitterness.
I wish someone was waiting for me somewhere
“I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere” by Anna Gavalda was first published in 1999. Anna Gavalda is a best-selling French author whose novels have been translated into several languages, some of which have been adapted for cinema.
This rich, romantic and emotional collection includes 12 short stories that all revolve around life, love and emotional and human issues. The book was critically acclaimed and a huge commercial success, winning the 2000 French Academy Award for Short Story.
One of the stories in this book is the story of a woman veterinarian who is raped by drunken farmers. Another story is told by pop singers who are isolated due to fame and drugs, and another story is the story of a traveling salesman; Through these moments and events, the author shows his unique talent in conveying concepts such as love, desire, need, lust, satisfaction and loneliness.
The book I Wish Someone Was Waiting for Me explores how a life can be irreversibly changed in just one crucial moment. This book takes a very honest look at the unbearable and painful consequences that infidelity can have on marriage and married life.
In a part of the book, I wish someone was waiting for me somewhere, we read:
The Normans, like all farmers, have their own set of ideas and adhere to them; Women are good for feeding and milking things and cleaning the stool dirt, but they are not very reliable for injecting, giving birth to cows, treating diarrhea, and cervical cancer. They trusted. After several months of gaining weight, they finally reluctantly accepted me as a veterinarian.
In search of lost time
In Search of Lost Time is a book by French author Marcel Proust, written from 1908 to 1922 and published from 1913 to 1927. This collection of 7-volume books is the longest novel in the world, the titles of which are, respectively, by Swan House, in the shadow of the flourishing maidens, by Garmant, Sodom and Amura, captive, escaped and recovered. The novel has led many critics to consider Marcel Proust the greatest writer of the twentieth century.
A beautiful book in search of lost time that became known immediately after the publication of a literary masterpiece, the narrator’s childhood memories as well as a rich panoramic portrait of France during the author’s lifetime and a deep reflection on the nature of art, love, time, memory and It is death.
The story of the book begins in search of lost time with the narrator explaining his habit of going to bed early, and most of the story takes place in Paris and in the two small cities of France, Cumbria and Balbec, between the late 1870s and 1925.
The narrator and main character of the story, “Marcel” narrates most of the novel from a first-person perspective. However, he alternates between first- and third-person perspectives when defining some stories, including Charles Swan’s relationship with Odette.
In a part of the book, in search of lost time, we read:
My regret was relieved, I let go of the sweets of the night I had my mother with me. I knew that such a night could not be repeated; That the greatest wish I had in the world to be able to keep my mother in my room during those sad hours of the night was too incompatible with the necessities of life, and with the desire of all that the realization of my wish that night be nothing but a fictitious and exceptional event. Tomorrow my worries would resume and my mother would not be with me anymore.
The song of our love
The Pastoral Symphony by Andre Gide was first published in 1919. A Protestant priest living in the Swiss Alps accidentally stumbles upon a blind girl whose aunt has just died. Her aunt was deaf and could not speak, so the blind girl also seemed deaf and dumb. The pastor adopts a young, blind girl, and his daughter, Charlotte, names him Gertrude.
The title of the book refers to Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony (also known as the Pastoral Symphony), in which the priest takes the girl to listen to the piece and it becomes Gertrude’s favorite song.
His wife, Amoli, is very angry and upset because the priest pays more attention to the blind girl than to her five children. She tries to understand the true nature of her husband’s feelings for the girl. Since the priest is the only person who has a strong presence in the limited world of the girl, he feels that he has fallen in love with her.
When the eldest son of the priest, Jacques, who is almost the same age as Gertrude, proposes to him, a feeling of jealousy and anger arises in the priest, and despite the fact that his son has fallen in love with the girl, he opposes their marriage.
Eventually, Gertrude undergoes surgery to repair her vision, and as she gains the ability to see, she realizes that she loves Jacques, not the priest. However, Jacques gave up his love for him and converted to Catholicism and became a monk.
This novel is an exploration of the concept of love, morality and honor, and all these concepts are beautifully displayed in this French book.
From this book, a film with the same title directed by Jean Delanoy was made in 1946.
In a part of the book, we sing the song of love:
I was in a hurry to get my son alone somewhere as soon as possible. My wife and children, after dinner, usually left the two of us together to work the rest of the night in earnest. I was all waiting for this opportunity. But before I could talk to him, my heart was so full of sorrow, or my emotions, that I could not, or did not dare, point to the subject that was bothering me so much. But he suddenly broke the silence to let me know that he had decided to spend the whole holiday with us.