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La Jeune Belgique

La Jeune Belgique was a Belgian review of art and literature published in Brussels from 1881 to 1897, central to the rise of Belgian francophone letters.

La Jeune Captive

La Jeune Captive is an elegy by the French poet André Chénier, written in 1794 at Saint-Lazare prison and inspired by his fellow prisoner Aimée de Coigny.

La Jeune Parque

La Jeune Parque is a long French poem by Paul Valéry, published in 1917: 512 alexandrine verses that ended his twenty-year silence and made him the leading French poet.

La Légende des siècles

La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Centuries) is a poetry collection by Victor Hugo retelling human history in verse, published in installments between 1859 and 1883.

La libertà

La libertà is a canzonetta written by the Italian poet Pietro Metastasio in 1733, addressed to a woman named Nice and celebrating the poet's liberation from the bonds of love.

La mayor

La mayor, Spanish for "the eldest," is how Victoria Ocampo, the eldest of the six Ocampo sisters, is distinguished from her sisters, notably the writer Silvina Ocampo; she founded the magazine Sur.

La muerte del cisne

La muerte del cisne (The Death of the Swan) is a 1915 book of poems by the Mexican poet Enrique González Martínez, published in Mexico City.

La Nouvelle Revue française

La Nouvelle Revue française (NRF) is a prestigious French literary review founded in Paris in 1909 by a group led by André Gide, later giving its name to Éditions Gallimard.

La Onda

La Onda, a Mexican literary movement of the mid-1960s led by José Agustín and Gustavo Sainz, wrote about urban middle-class youth in colloquial language as part of the counterculture.

La palabra del mudo

La palabra del mudo (Spanish for "The word of the mute one") is the title under which Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro collected his short stories, first published in 1973.

La Pléiade

La Pléiade was a group of mid-sixteenth-century French Renaissance poets led by Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim Du Bellay, who sought to elevate the French language.

La Poesía Sorprendida

La Poesía Sorprendida was a Dominican literary movement and magazine published in Santo Domingo from 1943 to 1947, breaking with localist poetry for a surrealist, universal vision.

La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jeanne de France

La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jeanne de France is a 1913 free-verse poem by Blaise Cendrars, published in Paris as an artist's book designed by Sonia Delaunay.

La Quinzaine littéraire

La Quinzaine littéraire was a French fortnightly literary review of criticism, founded in Paris in 1966 by François Erval and Maurice Nadeau and published in tabloid format until 2013.

La realidad y el deseo

La realidad y el deseo (The Reality and the Desire) is the complete poetry of Spanish poet Luis Cernuda, first published in Madrid in 1936 and expanded to 1964.

La Regenta

La Regenta is an 1885 novel by the Spanish writer Leopoldo Alas, known as Clarín, telling of Ana Ozores and set in Vetusta, a portrait of Oviedo.

La Révolution surréaliste

La Révolution surréaliste was the official periodical of the surrealist movement, published in Paris in twelve irregularly spaced issues between December 1924 and December 1929.

La Revue blanche

La Revue blanche was a French literary and artistic periodical of anarchist and Dreyfusard sympathies, founded in 1889 and published in Paris from 1891 to 1903.

La Revue de Paris

La Revue de Paris was a French literary review founded in Paris in 1829 by Louis-Désiré Véron, which serialized Balzac and Flaubert's Madame Bovary and appeared until 1970.

La Revue indépendante

La Revue indépendante was a French literary and political review published in Paris from November 1841 to February 1848, founded by Pierre Leroux, George Sand, and Louis Viardot.

La Revue Indigène

La Revue Indigène was a monthly Haitian literary magazine published in Port-au-Prince from July 1927 to early 1928, the principal organ of the indigéniste literary movement.

La Satire Ménippée

La Satire Ménippée is a collective French political pamphlet in prose and verse, published in 1594 to caricature the Estates General held by the Catholic League in 1593 and to support Henri IV.

La secchia rapita

La secchia rapita ("The stolen bucket") is a mock-heroic poem by Alessandro Tassoni, first published in Paris in 1621, about a war between Bologna and Modena over a stolen wooden bucket.

La suave patria

La suave patria is a 1921 poem by Mexican poet Ramón López Velarde, written for the centenary of Mexican independence and published after his death that June.

La Tristesse d'Olympio

La Tristesse d'Olympio is an elegy by Victor Hugo, written in October 1837 after revisiting the Bièvre valley with Juliette Drouet and published in 1840.

La vida breve

La vida breve (A Short Life) is a 1950 novel by Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti, whose invented city Santa María recurs throughout his later fiction.

La Vie de saint Alexis

La Vie de saint Alexis, also called the Chanson de saint Alexis, is a mid-eleventh-century Old French hagiographic poem and one of the earliest monuments of French literature.

La vorágine

La vorágine is a 1924 novel by the Colombian writer José Eustasio Rivera, his only published one, following Arturo Cova and Alicia as the Amazon rubber boom swallows them.

La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos

La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos is a two-volume 1967 collage book by the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, made with artist Julio Silva and published by Siglo XXI in Mexico.

Labbaik

Labbaik (لبیک) is a 1975 Urdu travelogue by the Pakistani writer Mumtaz Mufti, recounting his 1968 Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina with Qudrat Ullah Shahab.