can anybody suggest a few titles of non-english origin that have been translated, say the best novels of european countries ( russia, eastern europe, france, germany, etc.)
thanks,
2007-12-22 15:16:02 · 5 answers · asked by ______ 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Here are some non-English classics:
-Iliad by Homer (Greek)
-The Odyssey by Homer (Greek)
-War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Russian)
-Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
-Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian)
-The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
-The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
-Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (Russian)
-The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
-The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (born in Prague, then part of Austria-Hungary, but German)
-The Trial Franz Kafka
-The Castle by Franz Kafka
-The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (German)
-The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (French)
-The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
-The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
-Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (French)
-The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
-Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (French)
-Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish)
-Candide by Voltaire (French)
-The Human Comedy by Honoré de Balzac (French)
-Gigi by Collette (French)
-The Stranger by Albert Camus (French)
-The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (German)
-The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (Italian)
-Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (Italian)
-Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (Russian)
2007-12-22 15:43:56 · answer #1 · answered by ck1 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Not much to add :-) Here are a few good authors, lesser-known.
"Hidden Camera," Zoran Zivkovic, is a very well written light mystery.
"Creation: Artistic and Spiritual," O. M. Aivanhov.
"The Master of Lucid Dreams," Dr. Olga Kharitidi, may be a translation, as she is Russian.
"Stay Alive, My Son," Pin Yathay.
"Eyes of the Tailless Animals," Soon Ok Lee.
"The Lost Footsteps," Silviu Craciunas.
"The True Story of the Bilderberg Group," Daniel Estulin, http://www.danielestulin.com
"Essence of Aikido," Morihei Ueshiba.
"Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah," translated by Shoghi Effendi.
"And There Was Light," Jacques Lusseyran.
2007-12-23 01:47:04 · answer #2 · answered by j153e 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes , Kafka , Kobo Abe , Haruki Murakami , Cervantes , Doestevsky , Turgenev , Tolstoy , Plato , Xenophon , Sun Tzu , Emil Zola , Guy de Maupassant ,et.al.
2007-12-23 00:30:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's not much I can add to the first list, but try these:
Kristen Lavransdottir (3 vols.) -Sigrid Undset (Norwegian)
The Master of Hestviken (4 vols.) " " "
I Promessi Sposi - Alessandro Manzoni (Italian)
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco "
The Ring of the Lowenskolds - Selma Lagerlof (Swedish)
Desiree - Annemarie Selinko (Austrian)
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkewicz (Polish)
2007-12-23 00:02:14 · answer #4 · answered by aida 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow great list ck1
here's another great translated novel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2007-12-22 23:51:15 · answer #5 · answered by relaxin_adios&thanks 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋