It still makes me sad because sometimes when I read an amazing book in language other than English it makes me sad there is a huge bunch of people to whom I can't recommend it because they won't get an English translation or that the translation is ridiculously hard to find. This is partly why I am so happy Larsson's Millennium trilogy did get publicity and became popular because it proves non-English literature can be just as good. I think Crime and Punishment and Anna Karenina were representing the originally Russian literature on that list and if I recall even slightly correctly, One Hundred Years of Solitude was there too. But if we take that, all the books on that list were written originally either in English, Russian or Spanish. I am not going to guess how many languages there are in the world, but those three don't even begin to represent them all. Or the whole world for that matter.
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Date: 2011-11-26 03:14 pm (UTC)...I seem to have a lot feelings about this.