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| Tyrion101 Senior Member United States Joined 3916 days ago 153 posts - 174 votes  Speaks: French | Message 1 of 5 06 October 2014 at 8:48pm | IP Logged |
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This is just a general any language recommendation for foreign (to the US) literature in it's original language. I'll start it off by recommending 20 million leagues under the sea by Jules Verne. (In french of course.) Edit: Realized I misspelled part of the title. Edited by Tyrion101 on 06 October 2014 at 8:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4524 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 2 of 5 06 October 2014 at 9:36pm | IP Logged |
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I really liked The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe (original in English, the author
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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7208 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 3 of 5 06 October 2014 at 10:46pm | IP Logged |
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Two lists that I like:
Le Monde's 100 books of the Century (French - Les cent livres du siècle). Le Mot Juste - 25 Great French Novels. Many of these, especially in the second list are in the public domain and are available for free at http://www.litteratureaudio.com/, http://www.audiocite.net/, and https://librivox.org/. The list and master list at http://greaterbooks.com/ are also interesting. Edited by luke on 06 October 2014 at 10:49pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5602 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 4 of 5 06 October 2014 at 11:10pm | IP Logged |
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Well, I guess 97% of what was ever written on this Earth is non-US-literature, so your question is a bit unspecific or even americanocentric, so I am a bit overwhelmed by all the possible proposals...
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6585 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 5 of 5 07 October 2014 at 11:07am | IP Logged |
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I'm reading a short story collection called 衣魚簡史 ("Brief History of the Silverfish")
by Dung Kai-Cheung (董啟章), and it's awesome. I can't wait to tackle his larger works. It's mostly readable by someone who knows Mandarin, but the author sometimes have the characters speak Cantonese (seemingly randomly; I haven't been able to see a pattern), so to understand it fully you should probably know Cantonese. Dung Kai-Cheung won the "Author of the Year" award at the latest HK book fair and he's the first author writing in Chinese that I've really liked. I heartily recommend him. Some but not all of his books have been translated into English. Dunno about other languages. Edited by Ari on 07 October 2014 at 11:08am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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