This is the most insane thing I've read about this year.
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Oh wow I had no idea this was the same person from Lemon Demon
Astronautilia
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#22I always wonder what books there are out there, that are very interesting, with no English translation. Must be a lot of them.
Arabic and chinese each have literary traditions approximately as broad and deep as the western canon. I'm sure there are plenty of others. In all likelihood most excellent and interesting works are not available in english.
Same with the Hindu mythology. As rich or even richer in terms of metaphors and knowledge that can transfer over to modern life.
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#23sort-of related (scifi, poetry) is the book Tau Zero[1] and its similarities with the Swedish epic poem Aniara[2]
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#24I always wonder what books there are out there, that are very interesting, with no English translation. Must be a lot of them.
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#25I am too stupid to even understand the wikipedia summary of this book.
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#26Is there any work being done currently for a full English translation?
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#27I would love to know how Czech culture influenced the novel.
My impression is that central Europe (which I apologize for lumping together) has a pretty long-running tradition of literary absurdism and surrealism. They're works that are more allegorical than "scientific" or "futuristic," even though they might be responding to (or "riffing on") actual early sci-fi of the techno-futurism variety. As some examples, besides his R.U.R. , Capek (Czech) also wrote The War with the Ne…
Adjacently, on the Russian side you have SF-flavored satire like Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog, and on the French side you have stuff like L'Écume des jours.
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#28I wonder what inspired OudeisPloiarkhos to create an account and upload the plot summary. It's their only contribution to Wikipedia, and it's so detailed I somewhat wonder if it's really proper for the site.
I'd guess some kind of academic assignment, though it's strange that they spent a few more months editing it after the original post.
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#29I would love to know how Czech culture influenced the novel.
First time hearing about this book.
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#30I wonder what inspired OudeisPloiarkhos to create an account and upload the plot summary. It's their only contribution to Wikipedia, and it's so detailed I somewhat wonder if it's really proper for the site. I'd guess some kind of academic assignment, though it's strange that they spent a few more months editing it after the original post.
Some weird stuff has cult-like following in some countries. Meaning, in Hungary, the Bud Spencer movies, Torrente and Ford Fairlane script punchlines are something almost every hungarian can recite by heart. I didn't occur this phenomenon anywhere else (yet).