Thread: What do you read in "other" languages
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Old 08-07-2012, 07:55 PM   #66
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Originally Posted by Doitsu View Post
Many Eastern European SF authors have been translated into German, most notably, Stanisław Lem, whose book Solaris was made into a movie, and the Strugatzky brothers.
Most Jules Verne books have been translated into German and are available for free at amazon.de and Projekt Gutenberg.
Also many German SciFi/Fantasy short stories and novels by Kurd Laßwitz (a contemporary of Jules Verne) are available here at MR.
Sapkowski's witcher is (in contrary to English) already completely translated too.
I have read the 1st two books in their german translation (too) and have a high opinion on the translator's work. He definitely manages to catch and transfer overall feeling or flavour of the witcherverse and the characters. Don't even know how to express how I mean that in English...
I'd definitely recommend it to every german-literate reader unwilling to wait until the English translation of the saga is finished.
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