A brillant generation of Romanian intelectuals (Emil Cioran, Mircea Eliade etc) is only known because they moved to France (or other counries in the West) and wrote in French instead of their native Romanian. It pushed me to wonder how much language you create in matters for your success. If you write your piece in Romanian for example (and Romania is known to be a corrupt bumfuck) very few people would care even if it is translated into more popular and prestigious languges. Compare it with writing in Latin in the middle ages, French in XVIIIc. and now English. Language has a huge impact on how your ideas are received and how popular they are. That's why popular=/=good and ideas in prestigious language = ideas in minor language.
The Flemish writer Maurice Gilliams said of the Dutch writer Lodewijk van Deyssel that if he had written in French he would've been world-famous. His (van Deyssel's) impressionist prose predates the nouveau roman by half a century, for example.
You'd probably still have more success writing literary fiction in French than in English, especially if you're not a brown trans woman. The literary milieu is more important than the popularity of the language
>>25554962I shant be doing that.
>>25554767Yep. In one of his later pieces, or some biographical interview etc, Cioran did explictly state that it was clear to him, as a young man, that everything that "counts" was being written in French. So he set himself the task of learning the language in order to communicate as widely as possible his central message that... life is pointless and nothing matters. He always had a chip on his shoulder about being born Romanian, but then who doesn't.
>>25554767>It pushed me to wonder how much language you create in matters for your success.It's the most important thing, no one knows Krleza because he was from the bumfuck shithole of the world, and he can't even be translated properly because said bumfuck belonged to like 10 countries with different languages and dialects.
