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In the 18th century, French became the literary and diplomatic language of western Europe (and, to a certain degree, in America), and French letters have had a profound impact on all European and American literary traditions while at the same time being heavily influenced by these other national traditions (for example: British and German Romanticism in the nineteenth century). French literary developments of the 19th and 20th centuries have had a particularly strong effect on modern world literature, including: , , the "" of , and , , , and the "".|

The period that saw the transformation from romanticism to the realism of Gustave was spanned by the writings of the great 19th-century novelists , George , and Honoré de . The romantics and realists alike wrote of the painful discovery of self-awareness and the torments of the inner life and, in differing degrees, concerned themselves with contemporary social mores. Hugo and Balzac both wrote much-imitated historical novels. Balzac's multivolume panoramic description of French society, entitled stands as a unique literary monument to individual genius and a remarkable portrait of an era. The outstanding critic of the era was Charles Augustin , whose literary essays were models of perceptive criticism.|

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In the mid-20th cent. the standard novel form was abandoned by many writers of fiction, including Antoine de , , Nathalie , Alain , Marguerite , Michel , Roger Vailland, and Romain . The post-World War II writers established a type of novel not greatly related to earlier works of fiction. The or new novel, sometimes called the antinovel, dispensed with previous notions of plot, character, style, theme, psychology, chronology, and message. By the latter part of the century it had created a tradition of its own and was widely considered to have diminished the stature of French fiction and to have forced a self-indulgent subjectivity onto the novel form.|

Besides literature written in the French language, the literary culture of France may include literature written in other languages of France. In the medieval period many of the competing in various territories that later came to make up the territory of modern France each produced literary traditions, such as and .|

Literature in the continued through to the 18th century, although increasing eclipsed by the rise of the French language and influenced by the prevailing French literary model. Conscious movements in the 19th century, such as in , coupled with wider literacy and regional presses, enabled a new flowering of literary production in the and others.|

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