Michael Orthofer on Why Fiction Matters
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The Paradox of Globalization in Translation
In some ways New York City or maybe just Manhattan is fairly provincial because people think and they're led to believe that the whole world comes here. So therefore in translated literature you should read like the very most famous works, he says. If you can read a language fluently usually you'll enjoy the fiction or poetry in that language much more than if you don't. The bigger problem I see of course is that you're missing out on so much literature from elsewhere which it really is worthwhile keeping up with.
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