Books you have in a foreign language
Here is a hungarian Gravity's Rainbow
I have some books in English, does that apply, since I am south american?
>>7601586
The dustjacket is pretty based tho, where is it?
Italian copy of Invitation to a beheading. I got more italian translations, if you got any request let me know
>>7601756
Do you have Divine Comedy?
Got russian hardbacks of Crime and Punishment and Hard to be a God (movie poster cover) from a former ruskie qt.
I have Moby Dick and Shakespeare's complete works in english.
My danish translation of Ulysses. I find the cover very nice, absolutely one of the better Ulysses-covers.
>>7601896
I have a copy of C&P in Russian too. It got me thinking though: does it count since the language is foreign to me, or does it not count since it's the original/native language of the book and author?
Anyway, here's a Russian Bible I picked up when I went to Russia. I'd still like to see yours (both) and I'll post mine if you do.
>>7601586
>>7602181
>It got me thinking though: does it count since the language is foreign to me, or does it not count since it's the original/native language of the book and author?
I wondered about this too.
>>7601868
First one is just inferno, i bought it because the curator used to teach in my university. The second one is the full work
>>7602208
Forgot pic like a retard
>>7602196
I'm thinking either meaning of foreign should be fine.
>>7602154
Very nice anon. The cover for the only cheap italian version is meme-tier shit, but the translation and the notes are good
>>7602154
How's the translation, fellow Dane?
Always seemed to me to be one of those books that it's pointless to translate.
>>7602240
>Always seemed to me to be one of those books that it's pointless to translate.
It makes me wonder how the fuck IJ gets translated. I just finished it in English and there's some parts I can't imagine being translated.
OP here.
I meant non english.
>>7602181
I also have in Russian a really nicely illustrated children's Bible.
>>7602181
I call it the orginal. Anyway here it is, it's a 2004 School Classic publication. Really nice, I plan to read it parallel with the english sometime
>>7602545
What Hard to be God looks like, haven't actually watched the film this cover comes from. She got it for me because I am fan of Roadside Picnic
>>7602234
italian Infinite Jest has a 10/10 cover
>>7602545
>>7602553
Those are great. Here's my C&P. Yours looks like a better-quality book than mine, which I think is part of a low-cost series of classics and has cheap pulpy paper.
>>7602503
I have same edition but in lithuanian language. Same cover art and illustrations I guess.
>>7602624
It looks like the publisher targets the whole former Soviet Union, which I didn't know until now. Please post yours if you can, maybe something from inside. Here, since today is Epiphany in the Eastern church, is what the Wise Men page looks like in mine.
>>7602240
There's a new one now, supposedly better.
>>7602614
>not this shit again
>>7601586
Most of my books are in a foreign language (Dutch or French), since not everyone is an English-speaker
Check your privilege
>>7602624
I have the Lithuanian Constitution but I don't speak a single word Lithuanian
>>7602696
Same page actually, same picture.
Pretty interesting.
I got this from uncle and aunt when I was a kid, in 2002 when I was baptized. They wrote the date on that actually.
Cheap, small and supposedly unabridged Spanish version of Les Miserables
>>7602189
high res?
>>7602823
Really small letters, bad formatting, bad paper, weak spine and translation is pretty bad too.
For instance, Jean is now Juan, Charles is now Carlos and so on. City names are badly translated too.
I'm brazilian, most of my books are in a "foreign" language
>>7602846
Forgot pic
>>7602776
Nice but why do you have Lithuanian Constitution then?
>>7602797
That's great, thank you for posting that. That seems like a very interesting language and a great part of the world.
>>7602864
Thank you for nice words. The language is supposed to be very old, closely related to Sanscrit.
>>7602857
I'm a Law student, I figured it would be a nice souvenir to take from Lithuania (partly because it is a nice leatherbound book as well)
And it has the English text next to the Lithuanian
Here is a hungarian edition of Ready Player one.
A hungarian edition of "A canticle for Leibowitz"
It was a touching,emotional story.
I liked it very much.
Just ordered le petit prince. I know enough of french from school that I can get the jist of it. I'm not currently in any french courses or anything though. Does anyone know of a good resource to help my progress with the language?
>>7602240
I think they did a very good job with the prose, but certainly some of the references are getting lost in translation. Unfortunately I have only limited knowledge; I am on my first read.
>>7601586
Maigret and the Lazy Thief
Guess the language
>>7602265
I heard the german translation is pretty decent, I actually bought it a week ago since i'm natively german but haven't started yet, but he took 6 years for the translation, it's also like 400 more pages than the original
Finnish 2666
>>7605182
Romanian yay
Here's my based Odyssey
A hardcover brazilian edition of Odyssey.
German versions of:
01: The General in his Labyrinth
02: The Dead Souls
03: All of Gogol's other stuff except for the Dramas
04: War and Peace Part I
05: War and Peace Part II
06: Anna Karenina
07: Humiliated and Insulted
08: The Gambler
09: Crime and Punishment
10: The Brothers Karamazov
11: The Idiot
12: The Count of Monte Cristo Part I
13: The Count of Monte Cristo Part II
14: The Three Musketeers
15: Don Quixote Part I
16: Don Quixote Part II
>>7605269
17: The Rhine
18: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
most covers are very unspectacular.
Most of my bookshelf is Hungarian, but I figure that's not what you're looking for.
>>7605289
also I guess most of the cloth books had proper dust covers once but I've never seen them since I bought them used in my local used book store.
Some of them, like the Don Quixote ones, are really just spectacular from the inside, since there are some incredible illustrations inside.
My favorites
My phone is dead but I have the Kalevala, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone and some Donald Duck in Finnish.
>>7605239
fuggin nice
>>7602154
It's not a bad-looking cover, but I Joyce really didn't look like that. He was a spindly fellow who enjoyed facesitting, not some macho Connacht boy with a 10"-diameter neck.
>>7605330
That is fucking sexy
Clockwork Orange in Portuguese. And the translation is pretty good, believe it or not.
>>7602189
Why can't we have an English cover that looks like this?
Privately printed 2012 Flemish translation of The Ego And Its Own. It just has the gmail adress of the translator printed in the front and is only available at this little anarchist bookshop in Amsterdam.
>>7602154
>>7602234
You know, one thing I don't understand is why publishers have, it seems, decided that it's taboo to just put an artist's rendering of Leopold Bloom on the cover. We have a pretty good idea of what he should look like from Joyce's sketch of him and the scattered descriptions from the book (although Joyce is known for his distaste for the habit of some of his contemporaries on focusing too much on characters' appearances). As far as I know, Joyce never said that Bloom couldn't be featured on any subsequent editions' covers. After all, Leopold Bloom is quite different from Gregor Samsa. Or why not just go back to the cover that Joyce himself preferred? At this point, I'd say that the plain Mediterranean blue field with white text is pretty iconic for anybody even remotely interested in literature. Does anyone know if there've been any reprints with the original cover that Joyce ordained?
>>7605396
Paper is excellent too but I can't take more photos as I'm on vacations.
a pretty edition of the Kaevala in Finnish
>>7602696
>Epiphany
>Eastern church
>Wise Men
I'm not as familiar with the Eastern church, as its main focus on Epiphany is the baptism of Jesus. I will pre-emptively recognize my mistake and make amends.
>>7605454
Epik meme.
Did you know that the swastika is one of the oldest symbols humanity invented?
And that it simbolizes stability,wealth and prosperity?
>>7605690
Yes, to be honest.
