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I'm dismissing authors that don't have general acceptance in the literary canon. Tom Send a noteboard - 30/12/2010 12:01:18 AM
Every country has people who write. However, none of the people you mentioned were ever on the reading list for any college-level class that I or anyone I knew in college ever took. None of those people ever make any lists as "great" authors in the canon of world literature and philosophy. Kierkegaard and Ibsen do make those lists. There might be someone else.

Either way, it's irrelevant. I'm not likely to read any of them, in the original or in translation.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

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I think I'm through with translations - 29/12/2010 04:53:47 AM 578 Views
Well, you might need it for part of José María Arguedas' Los ríos profundos - 29/12/2010 05:56:31 AM 337 Views
I'm sure they're good writers, but are they GREAT writers? - 29/12/2010 10:14:11 PM 341 Views
Thiong'o is - 29/12/2010 10:46:00 PM 359 Views
Since I can read Spanish the question of who is or isn't great in Spanish is moot. - 29/12/2010 11:57:18 PM 357 Views
I agree on the Spanish - 30/12/2010 12:47:30 AM 371 Views
If the Kalevala were actually historic I might be tempted. - 30/12/2010 05:27:00 AM 342 Views
It's a common 19th century thing, I'll admit - 30/12/2010 10:49:42 PM 367 Views
Sadly, a lot of people STILL think The Da Vinci Code was historically accurate. - 31/12/2010 12:04:40 AM 323 Views
Ha! - 31/12/2010 03:53:32 AM 351 Views
I mentioned Persian poetry as an "iffy" call. - 31/12/2010 05:52:29 AM 355 Views
I've had that happen with some Romance language poetry - 31/12/2010 06:07:42 AM 325 Views
Norwegian? or other Scandinavian languages? - 29/12/2010 01:44:46 PM 340 Views
No, no interest. - 29/12/2010 10:10:26 PM 372 Views
Re: No, no interest. - 29/12/2010 10:11:45 PM 425 Views
I'm basing this on others not being translated or mentioned or discussed. *NM* - 29/12/2010 10:14:48 PM 148 Views
Seriously? - 29/12/2010 11:24:34 PM 367 Views
I'm dismissing authors that don't have general acceptance in the literary canon. - 30/12/2010 12:01:18 AM 371 Views
August Strindberg definitely is a big name. And as for Blixen... - 30/12/2010 07:00:42 PM 354 Views
Ew...Out of Africa...I hated that movie. - 30/12/2010 09:41:35 PM 340 Views
See my point? - 30/12/2010 10:23:27 PM 365 Views
I guess I do see your point. - 30/12/2010 11:59:39 PM 317 Views
Re: I guess I do see your point. - 31/12/2010 03:00:07 PM 353 Views
Oh, and I read and loved Kierkegaard. - 29/12/2010 10:15:05 PM 323 Views
in translation? *NM* - 29/12/2010 11:58:13 PM 159 Views
Seems to me like you're just ignoring the books in languages you don't speak, tbh... - 29/12/2010 09:58:15 PM 333 Views
None of those people sound interesting. - 29/12/2010 10:09:08 PM 379 Views

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