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French Short Stories 1: Parallel Text - Pamela Lyon, Various, Raleigh Trevelyan
French Short Stories 1: Parallel Text
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This volume is intended primarily to help English-speaking students of French, but the stories also stand on their own and make excellent reading in either language.
This volume is intended primarily to help English-speaking students of French, but the stories also stand on their own and make excellent reading in either language.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780140023855 (0140023852)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Humanities, Language, Cultural, France, Short Stories
Series: French Short Stories (#1)
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AC
AC rated it
4.0
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I read four stories – in a mix of French and English. The first, a sparse little Robbe-Grillet, astonished me because, typically dry in English, it was absolutely sparkling in the French. Well…, maybe that’s the wrong word, but it had a resonance – so that I could see suddenly why he is so well-rega...
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DeFor
DeFor rated it
3.0
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I used to think I could understand the nuances and style of an English translation better than the original French. If these translations are anything to go by, that is not the case at all. Some are better than others, but overall the translations lack an absurd amount of specificity. Even if they d...
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