Rilke for German poetry, but for French poetry, outside of Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Verlaine nothing really comes to mind for the past 170 years.
For 20th century poetry, you might try Prévert, or go off the beaten path completely and try a Québécois like Gaston Miron (avoid Émile Nelligan. A lot of people here would call me an heretic for saying this, but it's really just sub-Rimbaud).
Before your trio, La Pléiade (Ronsard, du Bellay etc.) and François Villon were of interest (for me personally, Villon much more so than la Pléiade).
Other big names would include Cendrars, Appolinaire, Lautréamont, Mallarmé, Musset, Valéry, Tzara etc.
A lot of the more meaningful francophone poetry from the 20th century has rather come from songwriters (Brassens, Ferré, Brel etc.) - a bit like it's the case with Dylan or Cohen, actually.
What about a comparison of Molière and Schiller's treatments of Don Juan (although Schiller doesn't have Don Juan as the titular character)?
That might be original, at least it's not something I've seen done in French Molière scholarship. Nearly all comparative discussions center on Molière vs. de Molina.
This message last edited by DomA on 23/05/2012 at 07:01:25 PM
What should I read next in French and German?
22/05/2012 08:05:38 PM
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My list of French literature I've read is extremely short, so, um, Racine? Yourcenar?
22/05/2012 08:17:49 PM
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Re: My list of French literature I've read is extremely short, so, um, Racine? Yourcenar?
23/05/2012 03:23:37 AM
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That would require yet another Pléiade purchase
23/05/2012 04:10:48 AM
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How about one of the Greek Novels?
23/05/2012 03:47:58 AM
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*browses shelves*
23/05/2012 06:43:38 AM
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I bought 16 books of Jung and 4 of Freud.
23/05/2012 01:44:16 PM
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Don Carlos
23/05/2012 06:21:48 PM
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Yeah, I have that. *NM*
23/05/2012 09:30:48 PM
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And if you were to read the Spanish versions, there are two well-known plays
23/05/2012 11:57:45 PM
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Okay, I looked at Don Carlos. I see no resemblance to Don Juan.
25/05/2012 08:40:05 PM
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I mentioned it because Don Juan appears in it, but is not the star of it
25/05/2012 10:24:20 PM
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It's hard for me to get excited about Spanish literature.
26/05/2012 02:18:40 AM
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Carlos Fuentes said as much in his 2011 non-fiction book, La gran novela latinoamericana
26/05/2012 03:24:22 AM
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Re: *browses shelves*
23/05/2012 06:57:22 PM
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I have the two-volume anthology of French poetry from Pléiade (book series, not the poet group).
23/05/2012 09:32:51 PM
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Re: I have the two-volume anthology of French poetry from Pléiade (book series, not the poet group).
24/05/2012 01:38:45 AM
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You could read the world's first Sci-Fi novel, Lucian of Samosata's Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα.
27/05/2012 03:08:30 PM
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Having read more about that, I'm tempted to say genre fiction has always been bad.
28/05/2012 03:40:45 AM
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