Pub quiz questions for the term French Literature.
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Terms: |French Literature| |Novels|
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
“Nothing arouses envy like another person’s laughter” was said to be her favorite sentence. Perhaps it is only natural, then, that she wrote the worldwide hit Bonjour Tristesse at the age of just eighteen. Who was the author of that novel?
Françoise Sagan
Terms: |Albert Camus| |Existentialism| |French Literature| |Philosophical Fiction|
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
The protagonist of Camus’s The Stranger is emotionally detached, and after his mother’s death and a later murder on an Algerian beach he becomes one of literature’s best-known existentialist characters. What is his last name?
Meursault
Terms: |French Literature| |Humanism| |Novels| |Renaissance| |Satire|
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
The Renaissance produced the first truly great name of French literature, and his life’s major work was the fantastic satirical novel Gargantua and Pantagruel, in which he expressed ideas of justice, goodness, humanity, culture, and tolerance. Who was he?
François Rabelais
Terms: |Drama| |French Literature| |Theatre| |Tragedy|
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
Together with Molière and Corneille, the dramatist in this question forms the great trio of seventeenth-century French theatre. He wrote mostly tragedies, and his most famous works include Andromaque and Phèdre. Who is he?
Jean Racine