"The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Night" by Elie Wiesel "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov, "Briefing for a Descent into Hell" by Doris Lessing, "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut and "The Magus" by John Fowles, are a few that really moved me in the past.
Thanks, I'll look into those! I've tried to read Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment but it was a bit slow moving for my tastes, but maybe I'd like The Idiot better.
I never made it through Crime and Punishment; The Idiot grabbed me from the beginning. I remember finding the mc appealing; it has been a few years so I forgot why.
The translation might have had something to do with it. With some classic foreign language novels there is more than one, so I sometimes read first the few pages of each one before I choose which version I will go with; some flow better than others. I swear sometimes the translation can be the difference between enjoying a novel and not.
That's probably very true. The only translated work I've read is the Odyssey, which I found to be quite boring, but it was probably the translation. I'll definitely give The Idiot a try!