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| limey75 Senior Member United Kingdom germanic.eu/ Joined 4389 days ago 119 posts - 182 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Norwegian, Old English | Message 1 of 7 10 November 2012 at 7:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Does anyone know which book these famous words begin?
"Heute ist Mama gestorben. Vielleicht auch gestern, ich weiß nicht." Cookie for you if you know :) (I do - I've read this book in Icelandic and Norwegian) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4834 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 2 of 7 10 November 2012 at 8:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Emk should know as he is reading it in the original at the moment... ;)
I've read it in the original, too. So, where's my cookie? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| limey75 Senior Member United Kingdom germanic.eu/ Joined 4389 days ago 119 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Norwegian, Old English | Message 3 of 7 10 November 2012 at 9:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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Josquin, you get a super-sized cookie for having read it in the original :)
Now, I am looking to read it in German. It's an excellent book for language-learners because it is written in quite simple language. Plus the story is good. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4818 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 4 of 7 17 November 2012 at 4:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Is it by Kafka, by any chance?
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| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4668 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 5 of 7 17 November 2012 at 9:12am | IP Logged | ||
My guess is that if the original is not in German (as the previous posts suggest), then it's not Kafka... It's more likely to be the book emk is reading at the moment, i.e. a French book published in 1942 by Albert C. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 7122 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 6 of 7 17 November 2012 at 9:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Odd, I guessed right and I don't even read German. I just gave a copy to a friend of mine
who wanted to improve his French reading. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| limey75 Senior Member United Kingdom germanic.eu/ Joined 4389 days ago 119 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Norwegian, Old English | Message 7 of 7 18 November 2012 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Vermillon is right, though no one yet has spelt out the name of the book. I love the attitude of Mersault in this book: "I said I didn't care".
I'll give you a tip though, it's called Útlendingurinn in Icelandic, Den fremmede in Norwegian and Der Fremde in German :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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