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| furyou_gaijin Senior Member Japan Joined 6377 days ago 540 posts - 631 votes  Speaks: Latin* | Message 17 of 21 25 August 2007 at 3:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Nearly forgot Milan Kundera: not half as good in French as he is in Czech,
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| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6307 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 18 of 21 29 August 2007 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm enjoying Kafka. Currently got myself an audiobook of "Die Verwandlung" from the Hörgut Klassik catalogue, along with Eichendorff's "Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts". Kafka does create some awesomely monstrous sentences, though, haha. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6438 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 19 of 21 29 August 2007 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Check vorleser for free audiobooks in German ;)
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| winters Trilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 7035 days ago 199 posts - 218 votes Speaks: Croatian*, Serbian*, Russian*, English, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: Greek, French, Hungarian | Message 20 of 21 30 August 2007 at 7:27am | IP Logged | ||
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By the languages I speak, my favourites tend to be:
Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian Andrić, I. - Na Drini ćuprija (though basically anything by him is a good choice) Gundulić, I. - Suze sina razmetnoga and Osman (epic works, beautiful) Krleža, M. - Povratak Filipa Latinovicza Miljković, B. - poetry Petković DIS, V. - poetry (Utopljene duše) Selimović, M. - Derviš i smrt (one of my favourite literary works) Russian Достоевский, Ф.М. - Двойник, Преступление и наказание, Братья Карамазовы (though virtually anything by him is a good choice) Лермонтов, М.Ю. - Герой нашего времени, poetry Пастернак, Б.Л. - Доктор Живаго, poetry Пушкин, A.C. - Евгений Онегин, poetry Тютчев, Ф.И.- poetry Italian Alighieri, D. - La Divina Commedia (my personal favourite is Paradiso) Bettiza, E. - Il fantasma di Trieste Calvino, I. - Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore Goldoni, C. - plays Leopardi, G. - poetry Petrarca, F. - Canzoniere Pirandello, L. - Il fu Mattia Pascal, Uno, nessuno e centomila English Byron, G.G. - Childe Harold Dickens, Ch. - The Old Curiosity Shop Milton, J. - Paradise Lost poetry of the Romanticism Shakespeare, W. - Hamlet, Venus and Adonis, Macbeth French Baudelaire, Ch. - Les Fleurs du Mal Maupassant, G. de - short stories Montaigne - essays Rimbaud & Verlaine poetry of the Romanticism (Lamartine esp.) Yourcenar, M. - Mémoires d'Hadrien Classical literature in Latin and Greek Homer - Odyssey Aeshyles, Sophocles, Euripides - plays, anything by any of them (Prometheus Bound and Electra being my personal favourites) Ovid - Metamorphoses There are certainly more, but these are just the first ones amongst my favourites I could think of, excluded works written in languages which I do not speak. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6588 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 21 of 21 30 August 2007 at 10:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Apart from what's been already recommended, Gogol and Chekhov are great, anything by them. As for poetry, I like Esenin, Cvetaeva, Akhmatova, Blok, Mayakovskiy, Fet, Zhukovskiy.
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