Please link your reviews for your Classic in Translation here. This is only for the Classic in Translation category. These should all be classics that were originally written in a language other than your primary language; that is, if you are a native English speaker, it should be a classic written in another language other than English. If you are not a native English speaker, it could be in English (or any other language, other than your primary language). If you want to read the book in its original language, that's fine too!
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First review done, 11 to go! -Rachel Aster Anchan
ReplyDeleteAnna Karenina - done! :)
ReplyDelete"Grand Hotel" was an excellent read! Highly recommended.
ReplyDeleteKaren, I'm trying to add my link -u, but it keeps asking me to accept the privacy policy, but there is no box.
ReplyDeleteNVM. I tried a different browser, and that worked.
Delete2nd review is done!
ReplyDeleteJust finished Papillon Liked it, didn't love it. I have a little problem (actually a big problem) with Charriere's reliability.
ReplyDeleteJust finished Tolstoy's War and Peace: https://janegs.blogspot.com/2019/04/war-and-peace.html
ReplyDeleteMy first Emile Zola, Therese Raquin, won't be my last :)
ReplyDeleteMine choice for this category is The Little Prince. A short, sweet, and very thought-provoking read :)
ReplyDeleteMy choice was de Maupassant's Like Death. I'd been meaning to read it for ages, but probably wouldn't have gotten around to it without the Challenge, which has really helped me expand my reading. I liked this particular book (didn't love it) BUT really became interested in looking at more of de Maupassant's work (probably short stories, of which he's an acknowledged master).
ReplyDeleteI finished this back in February and apparently never linked it up here. The book is just as weird as the movie.
ReplyDeleteI was totally taken over by "Bonjour Tristesse" while I was reading it, but afterwards I felt that it's world was so enclosed and disconnected to real life as I have experienced it that I didn't feel able to connect to it in my own life. As a seventeen-year-old I certainly believed that French teenagers were more mature than my mouse-like English self at that age, but even so I am still more astonished by Sagan's youthful skill than I expected to be.
ReplyDeleteHi, Karen.
ReplyDeleteMy apologies. I believe the first link is a wrong one, so feel free to delete it.
Thanks!
Read my first Jules Verne and loved it! Cannot wait to get to the others! (Have not yet written a review due to exhaustion, but hope I will be forgiven!)
ReplyDeleteI read Candide, by Voltaire. I did like it, but I didn't love it quite as much as I thought I would - I was possibly not in the right mood for it.
ReplyDeleteThis is my last category! I'm going to see how many I can double up on now! I read We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. I really enjoyed this dystopian novel.
ReplyDeleteI read the Trial by Franz Kafka.
ReplyDeleteI gad read Anna Karenina for this category, but then switched that the the long book category and put Swiss Family Robinson here.
ReplyDeleteRosamond Lehman's translation of Les Enfants Terribles is known for its accuracy and felicity. If you're going to read something in translation, go for something really good.
ReplyDeleteCatherine Middleton. Hi Karen, I have read All Quiet on the Western Front
ReplyDeleteI don't remember the first time I read this book, but I'm glad I reread it!
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