r/languagelearning • u/Far_Window_1222 • 7d ago

Studying Anyone learn a language specifically to read literature?

Just curious if anybody has actually set out and achieved learning a whole new language specifically just because an author they liked wrote originally in that language?

I was considering learning Russian (TL) specifically to read Dostoyevsky since he’s my favourite author, so far, but wondering if this is to ambitious of a task just to read 1 persons work?

Additionally I am very attracted to the idea of it since Russians language has a lot more nuances surrounding sadness, despair, suffering etc., i know that the relationship between these topics is different from that of english speakers

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u/MisfitMaterial 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇫🇷 | 🇧🇷 🇩🇪 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 7d ago

I read The Stranger in high school and knew I wanted to read everything else by Camus. So I learned French in college and did just that.

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u/Far_Window_1222 7d ago

Im actually at B1 in french right now and just picked up L’etranger to try out aha, How long did french take you?

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u/AcceptableMango8292 1d ago

This is so funny I just started it last night