What are some books that don't translate to English well?

>>7895683
Houellebecq, Celine, Cioran. English is too dry for the French.

The language I actually speak.

All other languages are obviously easily and without much loss translated to English or my native language.

>>7895687
Celine as in Journey to the end of the night?

>>7895796
>>7895687
Curious about Celine too, a friend of mine said he 'got the point' but it didn't make him feel anything

>>7895696
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>>7895683

And Finnish literature in general.

>>7895683

Also, why didn't Gregor just write on the wall with his jaws that he can understand human speech?

>>7895683
A hundred years of solitude

Taipei by Tao Lin.

I think a large part of the reason why Tao is so memed here is that people only read Taipei in translation. The original Taiwanese reads very very differently.

>>7896005
Why does he write in Taiwanese if he's American and fluent in English?

>>7895683
Poetry. Unless you completely rework the poems like Fitzgerald did for the Rubaiyat.

Shakespeare.