Norwegian Book Shopping

To me the variety of languages in Europe is highly valuable, something to cherish. Even if in practice it also provides many hurdles, in order to bridge languages and be able to scale things across Europe. Maintaining the cultural differences is important as a source of creativity and variety of ideas, while at the same time using our commonality to get things done collectively. I’ve held this position for a long time, and since a year or so I have better vocabulary for it when discussing it in terms of books, both fiction and non-fiction. It’s the vocabulary of comparative literatures. My own language skills do not extend across all European languages, although I’m not limited to my own native language either. Since I read Libraries of the Mind by William Marx I have become much more interested in the works that I cannot, and will not ever, be able to read. These are books that also aren’t translated into a language I do read (and in a sense other works that do get translated may…