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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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?
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Well, Ebert did include Kafka (German), Simenon (French), Chekhov (Russian), Borges (Spanish), Mahfouz (Arabic). That would make him a pretty accomplished linguist if he were only reading books in their original languages.