French psychological novels

French novel by Stendhal (1830)

novel by Émile Zola

1678 novel usually attributed to Madame de La Fayette

novel by Émile Zola

1957 novel by Michel Butor

Adolphe is a classic French novel by Benjamin Constant, first published in 1816. It tells the story of an alienated young man, Adolphe, who falls in love with an older woman, Ellénore, the Polish mistress of the Comte de P***. Their illicit relationship serves to isolate them from their friends and from society at large. The book eschews all conventional descriptions of exteriors for the sake of detailed accounts of feelings and states of mind.

novella by Guy de Maupassant

novel by Émile Zola

1954 novel by Boileau-Narcejac

novel by Émile Zola

1952 novel by Boileau-Narcejac