Re: Are their any bi-lingual novels?

From: alexV (alexV7623_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 21:30:48 -0500

"Ashley Moore" <ashmoo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:7abc122e.0411021700.754d7747@posting.google.com...
> I'm curious as to whether anyone knows of the existence of a novel
> that requires comprehension of more than one language in order to read
> it.
>
> Maybe with a bi-lingual character who has conversations in multiple
> languages?
>
> The closest I'm come to such a book is Umberto Eco's "Island of the
> Day Book" in which knowledge of both Italian and Latin helps to get
> some of the 'jokes'.
>
> Ashley Moore

Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Large part of the dialogue between the
characters is written in French. The novel itself is in Russian. Most of the
characters were of the Russian nobility. At that time many of them could
barely speak Russian.

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