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Novels written in several languages
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markms Newbie France Joined 5034 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Studies: French	Message 9 of 10 03 February 2011 at 3:48pm \| IP Logged
	It is strange that there are not any books like that. I'd love to read one like that. For example I am reading a novel at the moment which is based on both Wellington's and Napoleon 's lives before the battle of Waterloo and I feel like I'd prefer to read the parts about Napoleon in French. There is certain English that is used that I know do not feel the same in French. Sadly there is probably almost no market for them. 1 person has voted this message useful
BartoG Diglot Senior Member United States confession Joined 5438 days ago 292 posts - 818 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Latin, Uzbek	Message 10 of 10 05 February 2011 at 7:57pm \| IP Logged
	For the middlebrow intellectual, I would suggest William Weaver's superb translations of Umberto Eco, notably The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. Both have characters who speak multiple languages and both are littered with quotations from different languages. Note that I ran across a mass-market paperback of one of Eco's books in Italian (don't remember if it was one of these, or L'Isola del giorno primo) where things I would have expected to be in the original language were in Italian, so it may be Weaver, rather than Eco (or his publishers), who goes for original language quotations. I never got around to reading Baudolino, but since the lead character has a gift for languages, I would expect more of same. Strangely, the best book I've seen for combining two languages is John Grisham's The Broker. The lead character flees to Italy after receiving a questionable presidential pardon, and you join him in his Italian lessons, daily life experiences, etc, in a way that the Italian scattered through the book really belongs, as opposed to seeming affected. 1 person has voted this message useful

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