
French philosophical novels
Nausea (French: La Nausée) is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. It is Sartre's first novel.
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CultureCensored booksNovels first published in serial formMale characters in literaturePicaresque novelsFrench novels adapted into filmsNovels set in England1759 novelsAnti-Catholic publicationsAnti-Catholicism in FranceFrench novels adapted into operasNovels about rapeNovels set in 19th-century FranceNovels set in Germany
Germinal
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emile Zola's thirteenth and most successful novel in his Rougon-Macquart series, in which a strike breaks out in a destitute French mining village.
26 October 2023
Featuring: Susan Harrow, Kate Griffiths, Edmund Birch
Voltaire's Candide
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Voltaire's satirical novel Candide, first published in 1759.
3 May 2012
Featuring: David Wootton, Nicholas Cronk, Caroline Warman