Some classic works are very difficult to read in their native language. I've had Japanese friends say that Genji Motoganari - probably the most famous Japanese

Some classic works are very difficult to read in their native language. I've had Japanese friends say that Genji Motoganari - probably the most famous Japanese literature of all time - is basically unreadable in Japanese, and they didn't "get it" until they read it in English. I feel the same about some older English works. For a long time, I've thought it'd be cool to have one talented author translate an older English book into modern Japanese, and a second author who hadn't read the original to translate it back to English. I bet it'd be more readable.