Any Way You Write It

Recently, I finished reading 'Siddharta' by Hermann Hesse and I absolutely fell in love with the book. It was so.....refreshing. I can't describe it, but I can recommend it.
Anyways, when I finished reading the book, I looked up Hesse and saw that he was a German writer. Now, that sparked some curiousity.

What other foreign writers have such powerful text? Siddharta has the most wonderful syntax and irony that the book seems much too short. Plus, it was originally written in German, so who knows what wonderful meanings translators might have lost.

One book I've been dying to read is The Art of War by Sun Tzu. This book was originally written in Chinese in the 6th Century! Yet despite being hundreds of years old, it still has much influence over Eastern and Western military thinking. Why is that? Is it because the book is completely devoted to war? Or because the author (Sun Tzu) is some sort of legendary hero?
Or maybe it's simply because the book is Chinese and people always have a fascination of foreign....everything?!

Did you know that Ghandi was a writer? Me either!

But yeah, he had several published works. He usually wrote in Gujarati, though he revised the Hindi and English translations of his books. His writings were actually quite influential because he wrote about things from non-violence to vegetarinism. During the 50's and 60's, the ideas published in Ghandi's works were embraced by Martin Luther King Jr. There's also a Season of Non-Violence that's being celebrated as a way to embrace the non-violence ideas and works of Martin Luther King Jr. and Ghandi.

So this goes to show you that a little writing goes a long way, despite the language it was originally written in!

Click below to get just a hint of what wonderful foreign literature is out there. (Yes, William Shakespeare is foreign. He's British. He wrote in English that is so old, it can be considered foreign. So let's call him foreign for now. It's up for debate. But the entire list isn't made up of foreign writers anyways.)

Link: http://www.contentwriter.in/articles/others/famous-books-plays.htm