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| Euphorion Hexaglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5331 days ago 106 posts - 147 votes  Speaks: Slovak*, Czech, EnglishC2, GermanC1, SpanishC2, French | Message 57 of 63 30 May 2010 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Czech: Jan Neruda, Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Karel Čapek, Jaroslav Hašek, Jaroslav Seifert (Nobel prize), Josef Škvorecký, Milan Kundera, Ivan Klíma and above all Jára Cimrman Edited by Euphorion on 12 June 2010 at 3:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ladanoise Groupie United States Joined 5284 days ago 45 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Danish | Message 58 of 63 30 May 2010 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Although Kafka was born in Prague, it was then part of the Austro-hungarian Empire. I think that he spoke Czech but his works were written in German.
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| Euphorion Hexaglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5331 days ago 106 posts - 147 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Czech, EnglishC2, GermanC1, SpanishC2, French | Message 59 of 63 01 June 2010 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | ||
I awaited this remark ;) Kafka ideed wrote in German language and was indeed a Prague German Jew, but he was born in Prague, lived here most of his life, was perfectly bilingual and forms an important part of Czech literature. In his time, in the Czech lands three nations lived together - the Czechs, the Germans and the Jews. Even today you would call a Belgian writer Belgian, regardless of whether he writes in French, Flemish of German. Milan Kundera forms an important part of our literature too, even though he lives in Paris, writes in French but still is a Czech writer. Although his case is a little bit different. He had to leave the country during communism and I understand that if he wanted to make a living in France he had to adapt to the milieu. Edited by Euphorion on 01 June 2010 at 8:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5781 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 60 of 63 01 June 2010 at 10:57pm | IP Logged | ||
He writes in Czech and French. Unbearable Lightness of Being and Immortality were both originally written in Czech but first published in French translations (and he personally revises the French translations of all his works). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Euphorion Hexaglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5331 days ago 106 posts - 147 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Czech, EnglishC2, GermanC1, SpanishC2, French | Message 61 of 63 02 June 2010 at 12:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I must disagree, most of his books were writen only in French and some of them even dont have a Czech translation.
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| Theodisce Octoglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5877 days ago 127 posts - 167 votes Speaks: Polish*, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Czech, French, English, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Portuguese | Message 62 of 63 25 June 2010 at 1:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Galician-Portugues has some masterpiece works of medieval poetry written in it. Alfons X, the great Castilian personality, wrote his Cantigas de Santa Maria in Galician and I strongly recommend listening to musical reconstructions of them available on Youtube, a perfect harmony of music and literature.
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| Gorgoll2 Senior Member Brazil veritassword.blogspo Joined 5137 days ago 159 posts - 192 votes Speaks: Portuguese* | Message 63 of 63 22 November 2010 at 10:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Portuguese has good writers: Camões - The better -, Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa,
Machado de Assis, Guimarães Rosa - His works were written at Minas´ Dialect. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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