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What about fantasy in your native language ? How does it feel ?

I am of the opinion that translated works are (unintended) betrayals of the original text. And that a `native` author will produce better wording (sigh, sorry about that) than a translator.

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Do you mean originally written in my language? As coming from post soviet block, most of our fantasy is a bit different in a sense that from the beginning it doesn't involve epicness of Tolkien, Malazan, Black Company scale. From the beginning books focus on different things.

I would like to read some of them in English to see how's the difference in perception.

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