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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6443 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 1 of 5 16 September 2007 at 1:54pm | IP Logged |
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Esperanto allows fairly flexible language use, with a fairly free word order, affixes, and the ability to create verbs such as 'bluas'.
My question to those who have a familiarity with Esperanto literature is thus: can you think of any books which are written using Esperanto in a highly creative style? If so, what are some titles/authors, and what stylistic elements stand out? If you know places to purchase these books as well, please mention it; if not, please do provide what you know. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mankso Pentaglot Newbie Canada esperanto.memlink.ca Joined 6295 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto, Spanish, French Studies: Irish | Message 2 of 5 16 September 2007 at 9:40pm | IP Logged |
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This is not exactly what you have asked for, but are you acquainted with this?:
Baupierre, Henri: Specimene - Parodioj kaj Pastichoj. La Laguna: J. Régulo, 1962. http://esperanto.net/literaturo/novel/novlibr/specimenrec.ht ml http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Paul_Vatr%C3%A9 It is a compilation of short passages, both prose and poetry, in an attempt to imitate the literary style of about 40 well-known Esperanto authors. I have no idea whether it is still in print, but it is still listed in the UEA catalogue: http://katalogo.uea.org/katalogo.php?trovu=jes&auxtoro=Henri +Baupierre&PHPSESSID=0423b270b4fecaffb9674e I presume you know how to get hold of Esperanto publications (not always such an easy task!)? First try UEA of course, then some of the bigger national associations' bookstores such as ELNA: http://esperantousa.hypermart.net/butiko/butiko.cgi?product= Pr2&cart_id=78128_10379 Lastly try the secondhand market, for example the Retbutiko of FEL in Antwerp. The author Karolo Pich was especially famous for coining neologisms, so much so that many such neologisms are now called 'pichismo': http://www.esperanto.net/literaturo/lit/picese.html Good hunting! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| T0dd Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6553 days ago 17 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: French | Message 3 of 5 17 September 2007 at 10:27pm | IP Logged |
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I would say that any of Claude Piron's novels are worth reading, just for the sake of seeing how Esperanto can be creatively used. Piron writes under the pen name "Johan Valano." These are mystery novels, so the content is not terribly "serious" as literature, but the style is very good. Piron is a well-known Esperantist (but you can listen to him in French here: Piron on language) who has argued that the urge to borrow words should be resisted when Esperanto's own word-making resources can be used, and he is a master at doing that. Consequently, Piron's Esperanto writings tend to make wonderful creative use of a relatively small set of roots. In his nonfiction essay La Bona Lingvo (published under his real name), he presents a sustained argument for his views.
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| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7150 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 4 of 5 17 September 2007 at 10:34pm | IP Logged |
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Can Claude Piron's novels be downloaded?
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| awake Senior Member United States Joined 6640 days ago 406 posts - 438 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Spanish | Message 5 of 5 27 September 2007 at 10:27am | IP Logged |
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some of the more famous works of Jorge Camacho are available
here They may be of interest. Edited by awake on 27 September 2007 at 10:28am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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