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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4628 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 9 of 14 16 June 2012 at 4:07am | IP Logged |
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In the fantasy realm:
The Tintenwelt trilogy, comprising: - Tintenherz, Tintenblut & Tintentod. By Cornelia Funke. . It's called "Inkheart" in translation. Edited by montmorency on 16 June 2012 at 4:16am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5026 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 10 of 14 16 June 2012 at 11:55am | IP Logged |
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Oh, yes, and a truly great and immensely funny sci-fi novel: Die Haarteppichknüpfer by Andreas Eschbach
I'm just preparing it as a parallel text if anyone's interested. Edited by mrwarper on 16 June 2012 at 1:50pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ZombieKing Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4327 days ago 247 posts - 324 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* | Message 11 of 14 05 July 2012 at 4:16am | IP Logged |
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I would be very interested in that, mrwarper :)
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4321 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 12 of 14 13 October 2012 at 1:35am | IP Logged |
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If you are into fantasy, Wolfgang Hohlbein is very popular. I've only read "Hagen von Tronje" (Nibelungensage from the perspective of Hagen making Siegfried the antagonist), but he has written a lot of other books. Edited by daegga on 13 October 2012 at 1:35am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| mahasiswa Pentaglot Groupie Canada Joined 4232 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Malay Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Persian, Russian, Turkish, Mandarin, Hindi | Message 13 of 14 13 October 2012 at 5:36pm | IP Logged |
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Dependent on your vocabulary, there is the rather lengthy but readily available Die Leiden des Jungen
Werthers by Goethe which more or less has simple, rustic vocabulary and situationally contextual vocabulary, too, without too many modern devices or idiosyncratic compounds. If your vocabulary is more up to scratch, there is also Thomas Mann's Tonio Kröger, a novella, but with a very advanced literary style, very compact, very modern, and a good handful of compounds that may make you smirk at your knowledge of German language or make you hide from reading for a while. Fret not, there is a 40-page list of contextually-derived vocabulary available in this PDF: http://www.librosintinta.in/biblioteca/ver- pdf/sydney.edu.au/arts/german/downloads/tonio_kroeger_vokabe lliste_komp.pdf.htx In addition, there is an anglophone German-student edition published in 1959 by Appleton Century Crofts and has notes as well as vocabulary in the back of the book and line references. If you buy a used copy, you may find notes in it by a previous student even, and it's rather cheap and easy to carry around in your hand or bag: http://www.abebooks.fr/servlet/BookDetailsPL? bi=7700348105&searchurl=an%3Dthomas%2Bmann%26sortby%3D3%26tn %3Dtonio%2Bkr%25E3%25B6ge r If you're like me you'll start with poetry. Borges started learning German just by reading Heine, and his poetry is generally moving and easily worded so you may enjoy his work if you're just starting to read literary German. I personally prefer Schiller and Hölderlin. Subtler poets include Novalis and Paul Celan. The Bible is also really accessible and of course, like it is in many language's literary history, the style of the wording is still felt in modern German prose. You'll find idioms within it that modern poets use, like Saus und Braus (which I once translated from Hans Arp, using the equivalent biblical English expression milk and honey, although the terms differ obviously). Edited by mahasiswa on 13 October 2012 at 5:38pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5026 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 14 of 14 13 October 2012 at 6:31pm | IP Logged |
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Oh, and don't forget classical adventures, like Karl May's. I love the Old Shatterhand and Winnetou series, and that was so immensely popular that it wasn't banned in the 30s.
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