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| flabbergasted Triglot Groupie Latvia Joined 6358 days ago 75 posts - 97 votes  Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Latvian Studies: Arabic (classical), French, German, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin, Serbo-Croatian, Catalan, Persian | Message 1 of 11 23 August 2015 at 6:10pm | IP Logged |
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The first books that come to mind are James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" and Arno
Schmidt's "Zettel's Traum". Do you know other books written in several or even many languages? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| boon Diglot Groupie Ireland Joined 6161 days ago 91 posts - 177 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Mandarin, Latin | Message 2 of 11 23 August 2015 at 7:37pm | IP Logged |
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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 11 23 August 2015 at 11:08pm | IP Logged |
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The Waste Land (T.S.Eliot)
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| boon Diglot Groupie Ireland Joined 6161 days ago 91 posts - 177 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Mandarin, Latin | Message 4 of 11 28 August 2015 at 11:59pm | IP Logged |
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I realise I misunderstood the question and now feel a bit foolish lol.
One book I can think of that is supposed to have quite a lot of Japanese in it is Shogun by James Clavell. Unfortunately I didn't read much of it because I thought it was a bit silly (had a lot of promise though). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Elenia Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom lilyonlife.blog Joined 3858 days ago 239 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Swedish, Esperanto | Message 5 of 11 29 August 2015 at 1:54am | IP Logged |
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I can't think of any specific examples, but I feel like a lot of older (English) authors
were quite comfortable throwing in words or phrases from other languages (German, French), simply because the well cultivated, civilised human doing the reading would have invariably learnt these languages... In fact, in an old translation of Madame Bovary that I once read, I was shocked to find that quite a few words were simply left in French. This was mostly shocking to me because they were always the words that I hadn't understood in the original. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ElComadreja Senior Member Philippines bibletranslatio Joined 7240 days ago 683 posts - 757 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Cebuano, French, Tagalog | Message 6 of 11 29 August 2015 at 6:27am | IP Logged |
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I've seen Edgar Allen Poe drop some French, Latin, maybe some other things.
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4846 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 7 of 11 29 August 2015 at 8:29pm | IP Logged |
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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (German and French)
Confessions of Felix Krull by Thomas Mann (German, English, French, and Italian) War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy (Russian and French) Demons by Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky (Russian and French) The Lord of the Rings by John R. R. Tolkien (English, Quenya, Sindarin et al.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5849 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 11 01 September 2015 at 5:26pm | IP Logged |
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I would recomment "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco, there is quite some usage of
foreign expressions and words in this book. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 01 September 2015 at 5:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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