Post one book originally written in a language not of your own,

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>>9845640
Anything Russian, really.

>>9845640
The Brothers K, without hesitation

>>9845640
Probably anything by Dostoyevsky. I think that knowing Russian would be really interesting, but it's not popular enough as a language in my area of the world.

>>9845640
I've never seen that cover before

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Dropping a Frenchie here

>>9845640
I've got it on my shelf. Sell me some hype on it.

The Dream of the Red Chamber.

Upanishads in Sanskrit, nothing else comes close.

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los sorias by Alberto Laiseca
fucking sad
>https://theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/the-sorias-los-sorias-by-alberto-laiseca/

Tao Te Ching
I just want to know what the hell is going on but I've heard even in the original it's a mess

>>9845640
Where are you from OP?
Just curious why a foreigner would be interested in the only good author our country has produced.

i started reading that op and i coudn't quite tell if he was being ironically sexist or not and i lost interest the protag was just too much of a sad sack, but not entertaining, if u want ur protag to be a loser at least make him funny like underground man

>>9845640
maybe the quran to see if it lives up to the hype
>>9849236
not a fan of the sagas?

>>9849270

The original prose of the novel is what makes it good. It's the mastery of language displayed that makes it such a satisfying experience for a native appreciator of literature.

Such is the case for many novels written in whatever language. Movies and shows are for fun, literature requires appreciation for the finer things.

>>9849296
I am but we don't know who wrote them, so they don't count.