Questions tagged [isabelle-eberhardt]
Questions about the works of the Swiss explorer and author Isabelle Eberhardt (1877 – 1904) or her life as a writer. Use with the tag [french-literature].
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Why is "warm" removed in the translated English title of Eberhardt's "In the Shadow of Islam"?
Isabelle Eberhardt's book Dans l'Ombre Chaude de l'Islam has a title whose direct English translation would be "In the Warm Shadow of Islam". My guess is that the word "chaude", ...
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What is the origin of the third-person descriptive interludes in the Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt?
I've started reading The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt (English translation by Nina de Voogd, edited and annotated by Elizabeth Kershaw). The original was written largely in French, with a few ...
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