Trending Literary Movements in France — the 12 months to November 2026
The 100 most-viewed literary movements on Wikipedia, the 12 months to November 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Romanticism. Data as of 1 November 2026.
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Ranked
149,214
Total Views (the 12 months to November 2026)
1
Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
18,169
views
views
2
La Pléiade
group of French Renaissance poets
14,375
views
views
3
Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
14,180
views
views
4
literary realism
literary movement
9,913
views
views
5
Symbolism
late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images
9,077
views
views
6
naturalism
literary movement
9,032
views
views
7
parnassianism
19th century French literary movement
8,161
views
views
8
Beat Generation
literary movement
4,398
views
views
9
Félibrige
association to promote Occitan language
4,338
views
views
10
Nouveau Roman
French literary movement
3,736
views
views
11
Hussards
French literary movement in the 1950s
3,652
views
views
12
Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
3,413
views
views
13
Précieuses
art movement in literature
3,039
views
views
14
Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
2,940
views
views
15
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
2,894
views
views
16
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
2,215
views
views
17
Baroque literature
literary movement of the Baroque era
2,040
views
views
18
New Objectivity
attitude of public life in Weimar Germany as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it
1,746
views
views
19
Post-exotisme
1,618
views
views
20
Japonisme
European imitation of Japanese art during the 19th and 20th centuries
1,505
views
views
21
School of Lyon
group of poets, humanists and scholars from Lyon
1,503
views
views
22
Catalan modernism
architectural and artistic movement originating in late-19th-century Catalonia, Spain
1,399
views
views
23
verguismo
Italian literary movement
1,145
views
views
24
postmodern literature
literary form and movement of the twentieth century
1,086
views
views
25
Indigenismo
trend in social and political thought, visual arts, and literature in Latin American countries where Indians make up a significant part of the population, rehabilitating them
890
views
views
26
ero guro
literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan
878
views
views
27
proletarian literature
literature created by working-class writers mainly for the class-conscious proletariat
855
views
views
28
Aestheticism
art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
843
views
views
29
Pre-romanticism
literary movement developed in Europe in the last third of the century XVIII
821
views
views
30
cosmicism
literary philosophy
817
views
views
31
Génération de la ronde
799
views
views
32
Acmeist poetry
school of poetry
711
views
views
33
modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
696
views
views
34
École patriotique ou épanouissement du romantisme haïtien
666
views
views
35
Vormärz
Period of German history before the 1848 revolution
589
views
views
36
vorticism
short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century
574
views
views
37
Atticism
rhetorical movement originating from 1st century BC Greece
554
views
views
38
miserabilism
literature movement
499
views
views
39
Unanimism
A French literary movement based on ideas of collective consciousness and collective emotion
490
views
views
40
créolité
literary movement first developed in the 1980s as a response to the perceived inadequacies of the négritude movement; neologism which attempts to describe the cultural and linguistic heterogeneity of places like the Antilles
488
views
views
41
École de Rochefort
20th century French poetic movement
484
views
views
42
Weimar Classicism
German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism
475
views
views
43
Sentimentalism
literary movement
471
views
views
44
Latín mmg todos
late 20th global century proliferation of Latin American literature
454
views
views
45
Renaissance literature
European literature influenced by the Renaissance
433
views
views
46
dirty realism
subgenre of literature
427
views
views
47
École de Brive
409
views
views
48
Victorian literature
literature during the period of Queen Victoria's reign
401
views
views
49
Ultraist movement
Spanish literary movement opposing modernism
386
views
views
50
Latin translations of the 12th century
369
views
views
51
Dolce Stil Novo
literary movement
347
views
views
52
Occitanism
ideological movement
312
views
views
53
Jena Romanticism
German philosophical and literary movement
308
views
views
54
Spiralisme
299
views
views
55
infrarealism
a poetic movement founded in Mexico City in 1975
298
views
views
56
Esprit nouveau (courant poétique)
278
views
views
57
Barroquismo (barroco)
Spanish stylistic movement in the Baroque period
269
views
views
58
visual poetry
poetry where the text’s layout, typography, and visual arrangement enhance its meaning, blending design with literary art
263
views
views
59
Imagism
20th-century poetry movement
251
views
views
60
regional literature
literature characteristic by cultural characteristic closely tied to geography
228
views
views
61
Costumbrismo
art movement
220
views
views
62
Generation of '98
literary movement in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War
215
views
views
63
Club des longues moustaches
French literary movement
214
views
views
64
Generation of 1914
214
views
views
65
euphuism
an affected bombastic style of language
211
views
views
66
Mouvement indigéniste haïtien
210
views
views
67
Gongorism
205
views
views
68
Scapigliatura
Milanese artistic and literary movement of the sixties of the 1800s
198
views
views
69
scar literature
Chinese literature portraying damage caused by the Cultural Revolution; Chinese fiction of the late 1970s and early 1980s that focuses on the physical and mental suffering that occurred during the Cultural Revolution.
173
views
views
70
Tremendismo
172
views
views
71
impressionism
movement in literature
166
views
views
72
Renouveau catholique
158
views
views
73
Positivisme varsovien
153
views
views
74
Sacraïsme
143
views
views
75
Populismus (Literatur)
142
views
views
76
Native American Renaissance
Artistic movement
142
views
views
77
expressionism
literary movement
130
views
views
78
École littéraire de Montréal
Canadian literary movement
127
views
views
79
École fantaisiste
116
views
views
80
Trümmerliteratur
literary movement
113
views
views
81
Restoration literature
literature written during the English restoration
111
views
views
82
Conceptismo
literary movement of the Baroque period of Portuguese and Spanish literature
107
views
views
83
Lombard line
Italian artistic movement
107
views
views
84
Spanish Baroque literature
literary movement
104
views
views
85
Young Germany
disestablishmentarian think tank consiting of young German artists from 1830-1850
101
views
views
86
Cour amoureuse
101
views
views
87
Mahjar
Levantine diaspora's cultural movement
100
views
views
88
Generation of '50
Spanish literary movement
99
views
views
89
Saudosismo
Portuguese aesthetic and philosophical movement
99
views
views
90
Marinism
name now given to an ornate, witty style of poetry and verse drama written in imitation of Giambattista Marino, following in particular La Lira and L'Adone
97
views
views
91
New Culture Movement
revolt against Confucian values
97
views
views
92
magical Idealism
95
views
views
93
Generation of '36
group of Spanish artists
91
views
views
94
crepuscolarism
89
views
views
95
imaginism
Russian poetry movement
89
views
views
96
Sardinian Literary Spring
millennial period of literature of Sardinia, Italy
87
views
views
97
Modernismo
Spanish-American literary movement
81
views
views
98
Translation Movement
movement that resulted in the translation of texts from various languages into Arabic
78
views
views
99
Stridentism
Mexican literary movement
77
views
views
100
Generation of '38
76
views
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