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You are only going to read what people read in college? Camilla Send a noteboard - 30/12/2010 12:08:43 AM
Then you are welcome to your (rather stinted) selection of literature.

For the record, however, I read Strindberg, Bellman, Söderberg, Ibsen and Obstfelder for my undergraduate literature degree, and Hamsun won the Nobel Prize in Literature (and most sensible people will be outraged Blixen did not).

This declaration of yours is the most mind-bogglingly arrogant nonsense I have heard in a long time. But it is your life.
*MySmiley*
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I think I'm through with translations - 29/12/2010 04:53:47 AM 576 Views
Well, you might need it for part of José María Arguedas' Los ríos profundos - 29/12/2010 05:56:31 AM 336 Views
I'm sure they're good writers, but are they GREAT writers? - 29/12/2010 10:14:11 PM 338 Views
Thiong'o is - 29/12/2010 10:46:00 PM 357 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 356 Views
I agree on the Spanish - 30/12/2010 12:47:30 AM 368 Views
If the Kalevala were actually historic I might be tempted. - 30/12/2010 05:27:00 AM 341 Views
It's a common 19th century thing, I'll admit - 30/12/2010 10:49:42 PM 365 Views
Sadly, a lot of people STILL think The Da Vinci Code was historically accurate. - 31/12/2010 12:04:40 AM 321 Views
Ha! - 31/12/2010 03:53:32 AM 350 Views
I mentioned Persian poetry as an "iffy" call. - 31/12/2010 05:52:29 AM 354 Views
I've had that happen with some Romance language poetry - 31/12/2010 06:07:42 AM 324 Views
Norwegian? or other Scandinavian languages? - 29/12/2010 01:44:46 PM 338 Views
No, no interest. - 29/12/2010 10:10:26 PM 370 Views
Re: No, no interest. - 29/12/2010 10:11:45 PM 424 Views
I'm basing this on others not being translated or mentioned or discussed. *NM* - 29/12/2010 10:14:48 PM 147 Views
Seriously? - 29/12/2010 11:24:34 PM 365 Views
I'm dismissing authors that don't have general acceptance in the literary canon. - 30/12/2010 12:01:18 AM 369 Views
You are only going to read what people read in college? - 30/12/2010 12:08:43 AM 324 Views
August Strindberg definitely is a big name. And as for Blixen... - 30/12/2010 07:00:42 PM 351 Views
Ew...Out of Africa...I hated that movie. - 30/12/2010 09:41:35 PM 339 Views
See my point? - 30/12/2010 10:23:27 PM 363 Views
I guess I do see your point. - 30/12/2010 11:59:39 PM 316 Views
Re: I guess I do see your point. - 31/12/2010 03:00:07 PM 351 Views
Oh, and I read and loved Kierkegaard. - 29/12/2010 10:15:05 PM 322 Views
in translation? *NM* - 29/12/2010 11:58:13 PM 158 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 332 Views
None of those people sound interesting. - 29/12/2010 10:09:08 PM 377 Views

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