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Twentieth century French literature was profoundly shaped by the historical events of the century and was also shaped by -- and a contributor to -- the century's political, philosophical, moral, and artistic crises.
century''' is, for the purpose of this article, literature written in French from (roughly) 1895 to 1990. For literature made after 1990, see the article Contemporary French Literature . Many of the
Twentieth century French literature did not undergo an isolated development and reveals the influence of writers and genres from around the world, including Walt Whitman , Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Franz Kafka , John Dos Passos , Ernest Hemingway , William Faulkner , Luigi Pirandello , the British and American Detective Novel , James Joyce , Jorge Luis Borges , Bertold Brecht and many others. In turn, French literature has also had a radical impact on world literature.
This period spans the last decades of the , Gertrude Stein , Ernest Hemingway , William S. Burroughs , Henry Miller , Anaïs Nin , James Joyce , Samuel Beckett , Julio Cortázar , Vladimir Nabokov , Eugène Ionesco . Some of the most important works of the century in French were written by foreign authors (Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett).

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