Trending Literary Movements in France — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed literary movements on Wikipedia, September 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Romanticism. Data as of 28 October 2026.
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Ranked
77,659
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
9,427
views
views
2
La Pléiade
group of French Renaissance poets
8,497
views
views
3
Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
6,753
views
views
4
literary realism
literary movement
5,575
views
views
5
naturalism
literary movement
4,845
views
views
6
parnassianism
19th century French literary movement
4,675
views
views
7
Symbolism
late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images
4,489
views
views
8
Félibrige
association to promote Occitan language
2,236
views
views
9
Beat Generation
literary movement
2,162
views
views
10
Hussards
French literary movement in the 1950s
1,968
views
views
11
Nouveau Roman
French literary movement
1,871
views
views
12
Précieuses
art movement in literature
1,716
views
views
13
Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
1,593
views
views
14
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
1,518
views
views
15
Post-exotisme
1,223
views
views
16
Baroque literature
literary movement of the Baroque era
1,140
views
views
17
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
1,021
views
views
18
Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
953
views
views
19
School of Lyon
group of poets, humanists and scholars from Lyon
904
views
views
20
New Objectivity
attitude of public life in Weimar Germany as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it
828
views
views
21
Japonisme
European imitation of Japanese art during the 19th and 20th centuries
671
views
views
22
Catalan modernism
architectural and artistic movement originating in late-19th-century Catalonia, Spain
659
views
views
23
verguismo
Italian literary movement
562
views
views
24
postmodern literature
literary form and movement of the twentieth century
527
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
479
views
views
26
proletarian literature
literature created by working-class writers mainly for the class-conscious proletariat
440
views
views
27
Aestheticism
art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
434
views
views
28
Génération de la ronde
386
views
views
29
ero guro
literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan
370
views
views
30
Pre-romanticism
literary movement developed in Europe in the last third of the century XVIII
361
views
views
31
modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
356
views
views
32
cosmicism
literary philosophy
352
views
views
33
Acmeist poetry
school of poetry
343
views
views
34
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
307
views
views
35
Latín mmg todos
late 20th global century proliferation of Latin American literature
297
views
views
36
vorticism
short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century
291
views
views
37
Vormärz
Period of German history before the 1848 revolution
289
views
views
38
Atticism
rhetorical movement originating from 1st century BC Greece
276
views
views
39
École patriotique ou épanouissement du romantisme haïtien
256
views
views
40
Renaissance literature
European literature influenced by the Renaissance
249
views
views
41
miserabilism
literature movement
248
views
views
42
dirty realism
subgenre of literature
245
views
views
43
Unanimism
A French literary movement based on ideas of collective consciousness and collective emotion
237
views
views
44
Weimar Classicism
German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism
221
views
views
45
Sentimentalism
literary movement
221
views
views
46
Latin translations of the 12th century
219
views
views
47
École de Rochefort
20th century French poetic movement
212
views
views
48
École de Brive
204
views
views
49
Ultraist movement
Spanish literary movement opposing modernism
201
views
views
50
Victorian literature
literature during the period of Queen Victoria's reign
189
views
views
51
Spiralisme
182
views
views
52
Dolce Stil Novo
literary movement
170
views
views
53
infrarealism
a poetic movement founded in Mexico City in 1975
160
views
views
54
Jena Romanticism
German philosophical and literary movement
156
views
views
55
Occitanism
ideological movement
153
views
views
56
euphuism
an affected bombastic style of language
138
views
views
57
visual poetry
poetry where the text’s layout, typography, and visual arrangement enhance its meaning, blending design with literary art
138
views
views
58
Esprit nouveau (courant poétique)
124
views
views
59
regional literature
literature characteristic by cultural characteristic closely tied to geography
124
views
views
60
Barroquismo (barroco)
Spanish stylistic movement in the Baroque period
121
views
views
61
Imagism
20th-century poetry movement
116
views
views
62
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.
112
views
views
63
Costumbrismo
art movement
109
views
views
64
Gongorism
105
views
views
65
Mouvement indigéniste haïtien
105
views
views
66
Scapigliatura
Milanese artistic and literary movement of the sixties of the 1800s
99
views
views
67
Generation of '98
literary movement in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War
98
views
views
68
Positivisme varsovien
89
views
views
69
impressionism
movement in literature
85
views
views
70
Tremendismo
81
views
views
71
Generation of 1914
81
views
views
72
Sacraïsme
78
views
views
73
Restoration literature
literature written during the English restoration
75
views
views
74
Native American Renaissance
Artistic movement
75
views
views
75
Renouveau catholique
74
views
views
76
Club des longues moustaches
French literary movement
73
views
views
77
École littéraire de Montréal
Canadian literary movement
73
views
views
78
Populismus (Literatur)
66
views
views
79
magical Idealism
60
views
views
80
Modernismo
Spanish-American literary movement
60
views
views
81
Spanish Baroque literature
literary movement
60
views
views
82
Saudosismo
Portuguese aesthetic and philosophical movement
59
views
views
83
New Culture Movement
revolt against Confucian values
56
views
views
84
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
54
views
views
85
expressionism
literary movement
54
views
views
86
Conceptismo
literary movement of the Baroque period of Portuguese and Spanish literature
53
views
views
87
crepuscolarism
53
views
views
88
Generation of '36
group of Spanish artists
53
views
views
89
Mahjar
Levantine diaspora's cultural movement
52
views
views
90
Sardinian Literary Spring
millennial period of literature of Sardinia, Italy
52
views
views
91
École fantaisiste
51
views
views
92
Trümmerliteratur
literary movement
48
views
views
93
Lombard line
Italian artistic movement
46
views
views
94
Cour amoureuse
45
views
views
95
imaginism
Russian poetry movement
44
views
views
96
Generation of '38
42
views
views
97
Generation of '50
Spanish literary movement
42
views
views
98
Young Germany
disestablishmentarian think tank consiting of young German artists from 1830-1850
40
views
views
99
Stridentism
Mexican literary movement
40
views
views
100
Gruppo 63
Italian literary movement
39
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