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French Audiobooks: Editions Theleme

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Fri Jun 09, 2017 9:35 pm

https://www.editionstheleme.com/s/25038_de-grands-auteurs-a-ecouter-en-livre-audio holds dozens of audiobooks in French: past and current authors, French and foreign (in French translations), with good (mostly) narrative voices.

Too many to list, but just to take the first author in each row of the page:
Pushkin, Apollinaire, Balzac, Beckett, Emily Bronté, Madeleine Chapsal, Confucius, Vivant Denon, Umberto Eco, Flaubert, Laurent Gaudé, Kafka, Lao-Tzu, Andrei Makine, Montaigne, Ovaldé, Rabelais, Sagan, Erik Axl Sund, Didier Van Cauwelaert.

For the dauntless, there is a 36 CD collection of À la Récherche du Temps Perdu by several readers for a mere 225,00 Euros. CD only, no downloads. Personally, I would prefer Le Grand Meaulnes, and it's just 14,90 Euros to download, read by Mathurin Voltz. I must emphasize that it is not categorically clear that all these readings are from unabridged sources.

Not all works of these authors are offered. And I must confess ignorance about many of them, especially the French authors. I must emphasize that it is not categorically clear that all these readings are from unabridged sources. There are sample readings for each audiobook, but I was not able to get some of them to work.

I bought but have not yet listened to Le Père Goriot.

My apologies if some other member has already mentioned this site. I did a search on theleme and editionstheleme, which came up empty (here on LLORG only, not on HTLAL).
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Re: French Audiobooks: Editions Theleme

Postby luke » Sat Jun 10, 2017 9:18 am

Thank you for the site and bringing the "play a sample" button to my attention! Pleasant voices.

Another site, which has been mentioned before, but don't want anyone to miss is http://www.litteratureaudio.com. It is limited to public domain books. They have over 6000 now and some of the readers are very good. All of the audiobooks are free and there are links to the texts. You can give hearts to the readers you like, just like here :).
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Re: French Audiobooks: Editions Theleme

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Sat Jun 10, 2017 5:53 pm

MorkTheFiddle wrote:I must emphasize that it is not categorically clear that all these readings are from unabridged sources...I bought but have not yet listened to Le Père Goriot.


Just a few minutes of listening to Le Père Goriot was enough to show that the reading does NOT come from an unabridged source. If I wanted to read along, the skips in the reading would be very confusing. Once upon a time I tried this with a Jean-Louis Trintignant narration of the Essays of Montaigne, but it was too difficult for me. I'm not going to try that again. I'm not sure if my French is yet up to the Goriot recording.
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Re: French Audiobooks: Editions Theleme

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Sat Jun 10, 2017 5:55 pm

luke wrote:Another site, which has been mentioned before, but don't want anyone to miss is http://www.litteratureaudio.com. It is limited to public domain books. They have over 6000 now and some of the readers are very good. All of the audiobooks are free and there are links to the texts. You can give hearts to the readers you like, just like here :).

I agree. This is absolutely a first-rate site (where Proust is free and, imho, quite well read). Thanks, Luke, for the heads-up.
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