Er, no idea. I suppose that time I was reading Amin Maalouf's "Les Echelles du Levant" in Arabic translation alongside the French original, but in the end I didn't read all that much of it in Arabic. Or possibly now with the Master and Margarita in Spanish - that was not really one of my smarter decisions. I don't think this book is meant to be read at such a slow pace.

Not unless it's also boring, I guess. And of course if it's rather long, I'm less likely to read it in some language I don't speak (or more to the point, read) that well yet.

Not really.

I dunno. I intend to read A La Recherche du Temps Perdu at some point, if that answers your question.

Er, if you want to? Seems like maybe your time is better spent on reading works that were originally French, though. Then again, reading a translation of a work you know well can be enlightening too, but you don't seem to be enjoying this much.