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Yet even he looks at a much wider scope of authors whom he considers as literary genius, encompassing Muhammad and Murasaki Shikibu.
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See, that's just not fair. I would love to read non-english works, and judge for
myself whether or not their authors are literary geniuses. But unfortunately, English is my first and only language--and I refuse to read translated works. So how could I possibly put an author that I can't read (translated as any non-english speaking person) on my personal list of "classics?" Couldn't Roger Ebert (or anyone for that matter) be of the same opinion as me?
And I'm not being culturally biased by choosing not to read translated works, I just have no way of knowing exactly whose prose I'm reading if the authors themselves didn't do the translating. That bugs me...
I don't know what I'm trying to say anymore. Ignore me.
