Trending Literary Movements in France — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed literary movements on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Romanticism. Data as of 27 October 2026.
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Ranked
83,198
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
10,083
views
views
2
La Pléiade
group of French Renaissance poets
8,960
views
views
3
Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
7,332
views
views
4
literary realism
literary movement
5,857
views
views
5
naturalism
literary movement
5,153
views
views
6
parnassianism
19th century French literary movement
4,949
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
4,869
views
views
8
Félibrige
association to promote Occitan language
2,406
views
views
9
Beat Generation
literary movement
2,370
views
views
10
Hussards
French literary movement in the 1950s
2,113
views
views
11
Nouveau Roman
French literary movement
2,039
views
views
12
Précieuses
art movement in literature
1,822
views
views
13
Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
1,751
views
views
14
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
1,609
views
views
15
Post-exotisme
1,242
views
views
16
Baroque literature
literary movement of the Baroque era
1,203
views
views
17
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
1,138
views
views
18
Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
1,027
views
views
19
New Objectivity
attitude of public life in Weimar Germany as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it
938
views
views
20
School of Lyon
group of poets, humanists and scholars from Lyon
926
views
views
21
Japonisme
European imitation of Japanese art during the 19th and 20th centuries
742
views
views
22
Catalan modernism
architectural and artistic movement originating in late-19th-century Catalonia, Spain
724
views
views
23
verguismo
Italian literary movement
610
views
views
24
postmodern literature
literary form and movement of the twentieth century
578
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
516
views
views
26
Aestheticism
art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
474
views
views
27
proletarian literature
literature created by working-class writers mainly for the class-conscious proletariat
457
views
views
28
ero guro
literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan
422
views
views
29
Génération de la ronde
397
views
views
30
Pre-romanticism
literary movement developed in Europe in the last third of the century XVIII
395
views
views
31
cosmicism
literary philosophy
384
views
views
32
modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
383
views
views
33
Acmeist poetry
school of poetry
360
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
327
views
views
35
vorticism
short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century
322
views
views
36
Latín mmg todos
late 20th global century proliferation of Latin American literature
312
views
views
37
Vormärz
Period of German history before the 1848 revolution
312
views
views
38
Atticism
rhetorical movement originating from 1st century BC Greece
302
views
views
39
miserabilism
literature movement
271
views
views
40
École patriotique ou épanouissement du romantisme haïtien
269
views
views
41
Renaissance literature
European literature influenced by the Renaissance
261
views
views
42
dirty realism
subgenre of literature
253
views
views
43
Unanimism
A French literary movement based on ideas of collective consciousness and collective emotion
250
views
views
44
Sentimentalism
literary movement
248
views
views
45
Weimar Classicism
German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism
239
views
views
46
Latin translations of the 12th century
236
views
views
47
École de Rochefort
20th century French poetic movement
232
views
views
48
École de Brive
222
views
views
49
Victorian literature
literature during the period of Queen Victoria's reign
214
views
views
50
Ultraist movement
Spanish literary movement opposing modernism
212
views
views
51
Spiralisme
187
views
views
52
Dolce Stil Novo
literary movement
183
views
views
53
Jena Romanticism
German philosophical and literary movement
173
views
views
54
infrarealism
a poetic movement founded in Mexico City in 1975
165
views
views
55
Occitanism
ideological movement
162
views
views
56
visual poetry
poetry where the text’s layout, typography, and visual arrangement enhance its meaning, blending design with literary art
145
views
views
57
Esprit nouveau (courant poétique)
140
views
views
58
euphuism
an affected bombastic style of language
140
views
views
59
regional literature
literature characteristic by cultural characteristic closely tied to geography
133
views
views
60
Imagism
20th-century poetry movement
131
views
views
61
Costumbrismo
art movement
130
views
views
62
Barroquismo (barroco)
Spanish stylistic movement in the Baroque period
127
views
views
63
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.
117
views
views
64
Mouvement indigéniste haïtien
117
views
views
65
Gongorism
113
views
views
66
Scapigliatura
Milanese artistic and literary movement of the sixties of the 1800s
109
views
views
67
Generation of '98
literary movement in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War
107
views
views
68
Club des longues moustaches
French literary movement
94
views
views
69
Generation of 1914
92
views
views
70
Positivisme varsovien
90
views
views
71
impressionism
movement in literature
89
views
views
72
Tremendismo
87
views
views
73
Sacraïsme
82
views
views
74
Renouveau catholique
80
views
views
75
Native American Renaissance
Artistic movement
76
views
views
76
Restoration literature
literature written during the English restoration
76
views
views
77
École littéraire de Montréal
Canadian literary movement
75
views
views
78
Populismus (Literatur)
72
views
views
79
Spanish Baroque literature
literary movement
64
views
views
80
magical Idealism
64
views
views
81
Saudosismo
Portuguese aesthetic and philosophical movement
63
views
views
82
Generation of '36
group of Spanish artists
63
views
views
83
expressionism
literary movement
61
views
views
84
Modernismo
Spanish-American literary movement
61
views
views
85
Conceptismo
literary movement of the Baroque period of Portuguese and Spanish literature
60
views
views
86
New Culture Movement
revolt against Confucian values
59
views
views
87
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
58
views
views
88
École fantaisiste
57
views
views
89
Trümmerliteratur
literary movement
56
views
views
90
crepuscolarism
55
views
views
91
Sardinian Literary Spring
millennial period of literature of Sardinia, Italy
54
views
views
92
Mahjar
Levantine diaspora's cultural movement
54
views
views
93
Young Germany
disestablishmentarian think tank consiting of young German artists from 1830-1850
49
views
views
94
Generation of '50
Spanish literary movement
48
views
views
95
Lombard line
Italian artistic movement
48
views
views
96
Cour amoureuse
46
views
views
97
Atomic bomb literature
Japanese literary genre
45
views
views
98
imaginism
Russian poetry movement
44
views
views
99
Generation of '38
44
views
views
100
Stridentism
Mexican literary movement
42
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