The French language is the world’s second most widely used in international circles .French literature though only about 900 years old , is very rich and has to its credit 14 Nobel laureates.Names likeSartre,VictoHugo,Baudelaire,A.Dumas,Maupassant, Voltaire, Rousseau Moliere are quite popular among Indians and tamilians. But there are many more whose contribution to literature is significant.The purpose of this site is to present through the medium of tamil language, the history of French literature and its wealth (life sketch of the authors, abstracts of the masterpieces and quotations from reputed writings including poems translated into tamil ) .You will find in this site
the following:
1-An history of the French literature from its origin to the end of the seventeenth century.
2-A history of the French literature of the eighteenth century (incubation period of the French Revolution)
3-A history of the French literature of the nineteenth century. (Romanticism)
4-Famous French poems- பிரபல பிரெஞ்சு கவிதைகள் (fifty of the best and most widely known classical French poems have been extracted and translated into tamil. The book gives side by side the French original and its tamil translation.You can also listen to an audio recording of the poetry reading in authentic French and tamil.
5- J.P. Sartre,is a famous critic,playwright,and philosopher whose thoughts have considerably influenced the European intelligentia.One of his famous plays
Les mains sales (the dirty hands) which deals with violence in politics has been translates into tamil.( full integral version )
The literature of the twentieth century, the tamil translation of a number of french short stories published by the author in various magazines poems composed by him in tamil are proposed to be added in due course.
