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May I recommend reading them in their original languages? It becomes impossible to truly appreciate a completely different culture, and way of thinking and see
by throwaway2331 5y ago
May I recommend reading them in their original languages?
It becomes impossible to truly appreciate a completely different culture, and way of thinking and seeing the world, when it's being tortuously twisted to fit into the "English" way.
It's like reading Bulgakov's The Master and the Margarita in anything but Russian; or Clauswitz's On War in anything but German; or Homer's Iliad in anything but Ancient Greek.
In the first, you lose the raw emotion of the Russian language. In the second, you lose the exacting precision of the German language. And in the last, you lose the sublime beauty of the Ancient Greek language.
- edanm 5y agoThat's probably good advice, but not applicable to almost anyone. If you have to learn another language in order to read a book, you're probably not going to read the book. If you already happen to know Russian, German and Ancient Greek, then yeah, go ahead and read them in the original languages :)