Mircea Cărtărescu was translated into English and became a bestseller. It makes me wonder why a minority part of the world claims that their first generation of writers had to use English to help their culture reach a global audience. Increasingly, the truly audacious novels published in English are not originally written in this language but are translated into it. Follow this link to read more: https://kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2014-spring/selections/blinding-by-mircea-cartarescu-738439/