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To that side note... Perhaps your surprising feeling relates to the fact that storytelling is a very old art, and we have been practising it intensely for a lo

To that side note... Perhaps your surprising feeling relates to the fact that storytelling is a very old art, and we have been practising it intensely for a long time. In the greater scheme, maybe 3400 years isn't as long for storytelling as it is for most arts and practices that you'd be comparing to. Rock n Roll from 2022 isn't that different to someone from 2002. Rock and Roll from 1972 is very different to 1952. You could blow a 1952 mind mind with Ziggy Stardust or Houses of the Holy.

the_omegist 4y ago
True. But the fact that the way the story was told (the structure of the story) as well as the characters psychology was very "modern". For example, I think I can't like japanese literature (for the few I've read) because of their weird way of telling stories [0]. So I would have expected something older and less "cosmopolitan" to be harder to get into... Well perhaps the translator took some "freedom" by modernizing it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishotenketsu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishotenketsu