I have made it my mission to read more classics and decided to start with Cyrano. As I‘ve unfortunately forgotten all the french I‘ve learned in school, I decided to read this in English, specifically the english translation by Anthony Burgess as it was recommended to me. I knew the story from various modern adaptations (I think my first contact with the story of Cyrano was the german movie “The most beautiful girl in the world“, in which a teen with a really big nose who likes to do free-style rap falls in love with his classmate and no, i am not making that up). However, I really loved the original story as well. The translation worked really well. I laughed out loud at certain points and also cried a little (shh don‘t tell anyone).
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Cyrano de Bergeracvon Edmond RostandAnaconda Verlag


