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>And by induction and observation I do not believe there is a burmese or marathi book worth reading, I believe there is very little worth reading outside of Europe
How do you figure?
>A book so measly that no one could even spare translating it to English - a language in which it would actually be read by more than a small local population.
Or there are fewer qualified Burmese-English literary translators and English culture has been in contact with French culture for longer than Burmese culture.
>Is it better than anything else you could've read in English? Probably not. Very probably not.
But it might have insights you can't get from within English culture.
> I see no other way that you, anon, would seriously utter the words "Burmese classic." It's an oxymoron.
There are texts that are classics within their own Burmese cultural context, texts that every literate Burmese-speaker is at least familiar with even if they haven't read it- is that not a classic?

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