Foreign Literature

[Evil Eye]

I used to think of myself as a fairly cosmopolitan sort of person, but my bookshelves told a different story. Apart from a few Indian novels and the odd Australian and South African book, my literature collection consisted of British and American titles. Worse still, I hardly ever tackled anything in translation. My reading was confined to stories by English-speaking authors.

So, at the start of 2012, I set myself the challenge of trying to read a book from every country (well, all 195 UN-recognised states plus former UN member Taiwan) in a year to find out what I was missing.

Full article: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130715-reading-the-world-in-365-days


Which seems like a cool thing to do and made me wonder, have you read many books not originally written in your native language?

 

[DrLeftover]

If you want to read a foreign language... just have a teenager send you a text message.

 

[Evil Eye]

Can't say I've had that problem myself, but I hear it's a growing problem.

Anyway, I've read books translated from English, German, Greek, Italian (a comic book, admittedly), Japanese, Latin, Sumerian and Swedish.
I kind of feel like there should be more (and maybe there are), all in good time I suppose. Besides, I could do worse.