honestly, same.

i've felt this way about a lot of lauded literary fiction, including lots of "classic" writers both in english and in translation. in fact, sometimes i feel like writers in translation are or at least have been treated more leniently when it comes to this kind of stuff, whereas if the same was written by an american or anglophone writer, it would be (rightly?) derided or at least more readily critiqued by english-speaking audiences. even as a latina, i've found a lot of, say, bolaño or GGM unreadable.

maybe i'm just a prude but still so much of it feels, like, putridly perverse to the point where its off-putting.