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Message: [QUOTE="_Lorenzo_, post: 534021, member: 262"] G[COLOR=rgb(224, 224, 224)]enerally, if I didn't like an author's style, it was practically impossible for me to venture into their other works. Which, looking back, was completely stupid![/COLOR] For instance, I disliked Buzzati’s narrative style in The Tartar Steppe/Il deserto dei Tartari, which had been recommended to me. But a few years later, I decided to dive into his other books, and they actually completely gripped me, especially his short story collections, some of which are totally absurd and deeply unsettling. When it comes to foreign literature where you don't speak the language, everything rides on the translator. They have to somehow possess the skill to re-interpret the author's actual train of thought, the idiomatic nuances, and so on. Long story short, over the years I’ve learned not to write off any specific author for those reasons, but maybe I'm wrong! [/QUOTE]

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