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Old 09-03-2009, 12:37 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by frui View Post
Yes completely.
Yet it does not matter that much for foreigners, as anything significant will be lost in translation sooner or later.
You see, with language and facts receding, plot goes to the foreground, and Dan Brown certainly excels in that.
Makes perfect sense.

I also suspect some of the rest of his international success is based on translators that are more literary than him producing books that do not rouse quite the same sort of backlash in their own countries as is still evident in the anglosphere.

Maybe I should give one of his books' Hungarian translation a try...

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