Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century [1999]

Historical Literary

Based on a poll run by the Paris newspaper Le Monde Missing: *Dino Buzzati (29) *Jean Giono (31) *Albert Cohen (32) *Raymond Queneau (36) *Vercors (42) *Georges Bernanos (45) *Paul Claudel (52) *Michel Tournier (55) *Hugo Pratt (62) *Julien Gracq (65) *Jules Renard (74) *Blaise Cendrars (80) *Robert Musil (86) *Rene Char ( 87) *Edgar J. Jacobs (90) *Michel Butor (92) *Andre Franquin (98)

This Category is Ranked. Sort by Ranking Based on Votes by clicking on Vote Ranking. Sort by the Collection's Ranking by clicking on List Ranking.

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58

1

Albert Camus

Philosopher

0% (0 of 0 votes)

59

2

Marcel Proust

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

8

3

Franz Kafka

Author

100% (2 of 2 votes)

57

4

Antoine de Saint Exupery

Aviator

0% (0 of 0 votes)

49

5

Andre Malraux

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

24

6

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

62

7

John Steinbeck

Author

0% (0 of 3 votes)

14

8

Ernest Hemingway

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

82

9

Alain-Fournier

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

51

10

Boris Vian

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

28

11

Simone De Beauvoir

Philosopher

0% (0 of 2 votes)

29

12

Samuel Beckett

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

30

13

Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher

0% (0 of 0 votes)

31

14

Umberto Eco

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

32

15

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

12

16

Jacques Prevert

Poet

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

4

17

Guillaume Apollinaire

Poet

100% (1 of 1 votes)

68

18

Herge (Georges Prosper Remi)

Artist

0% (0 of 2 votes)

17

19

Anne Frank

Student

34.59% (64 of 185 votes)

18

20

Claude Levi-Strauss

Scientist

0% (0 of 1 votes)

19

21

Aldous Huxley

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

20

22

George Orwell

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

7

23

Albert Uderzo

Artist

100% (1 of 1 votes)

61

23

Rene Goscinny

Animator

0% (0 of 0 votes)

1

24

Eugene Ionesco

Playwright

100% (1 of 1 votes)

15

25

Sigmund Freud

Doctor

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

27

26

Marguerite Yourcenar

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

21

27

Vladimir Nabokov

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

22

28

James Joyce

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

23

30

Andre Gide

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

2

33

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

75

34

William Faulkner

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

26

35

Francois Mauriac

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

50

37

Stefan Zweig

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

76

38

Margaret Mitchell

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

77

39

D.H. Lawrence

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

3

40

Thomas Mann

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

69

41

Francoise Sagan

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

52

43

Georges Perec

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

70

44

Arthur Conan Doyle

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

71

46

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

72

47

Milan Kundera

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

53

48

Alberto Moravia

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

73

49

Agatha Christie

Author

0% (0 of 3 votes)

55

50

Andre Breton

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

84

51

Louis Aragon

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

74

53

Luigi Pirandello

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

11

54

Bertolt Brecht

Playwright

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

5

56

H.G. (Herbert George) Wells

Author

100% (6 of 6 votes)

67

57

Primo Levi

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

16

58

J.R.R. Tolkien

Author

45.45% (5 of 11 votes)

33

59

Colette

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

78

60

Paul Eluard

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

34

61

Jack London

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

25

63

Roland Barthes

Philosopher

0% (0 of 0 votes)

10

64

Heinrich Böll

Author

100% (1 of 1 votes)

35

66

Michel Foucault

Philosopher

0% (0 of 1 votes)

36

67

Jack Kerouac

Author

0% (0 of 3 votes)

9

68

Selma Lagerlof

Author

100% (2 of 2 votes)

37

69

Virginia Woolf

Author

0% (0 of 3 votes)

38

70

Ray Bradbury

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

39

71

Marguerite Duras

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

60

72

J. M. G. Le Clezio

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

79

73

Nathalie Sarraute

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

40

75

Joseph Conrad

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

80

76

Jacques Lacan

Doctor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

41

77

Antonin Artaud

Playwright

0% (0 of 1 votes)

42

78

John Dos Passos

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

43

79

Jorge Luis Borges

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

83

81

Ismail Kadare

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

44

82

William Styron

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

45

83

Federico Garcia Lorca

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

46

84

Georges Simenon

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

47

85

Jean Genet

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

48

88

J.D. Salinger

Author

0% (0 of 1 votes)

81

89

James Hadley Chase

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

6

91

Rainer Maria Rilke

Poet

100% (1 of 1 votes)

63

93

Hannah Arendt

Philosopher

0% (0 of 1 votes)

64

94

Mikhail Bulgakov

Playwright

0% (0 of 0 votes)

65

95

Henry Miller

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

66

96

Raymond Chandler

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

54

97

Saint-John Perse

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

13

99

Malcolm Lowry

Author

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

56

100

Salman Rushdie

Author

0% (0 of 2 votes)