What are some books that don't translate to English well?
>>7895683
Houellebecq, Celine, Cioran. English is too dry for the French.
The language I actually speak.
All other languages are obviously easily and without much loss translated to English or my native language.
>>7895687
Celine as in Journey to the end of the night?
>>7895696
/thread
>>7895683
And Finnish literature in general.
>>7895683
Also, why didn't Gregor just write on the wall with his jaws that he can understand human speech?
>>7895683
A hundred years of solitude
Taipei by Tao Lin.
I think a large part of the reason why Tao is so memed here is that people only read Taipei in translation. The original Taiwanese reads very very differently.
>>7896005
Why does he write in Taiwanese if he's American and fluent in English?
>>7895683
Poetry. Unless you completely rework the poems like Fitzgerald did for the Rubaiyat.
Shakespeare.
