Elanna’s Reviews > Dialogue Books A History of the World in Six Plagues How Contagion, Class and Captivity Shape Us, from Cholera to Covid-19. > Status Update

I have the utmost respect for people who publish in a foreign language, but here sometimes words seem matched randomly, and entire passages don't make any sense.
It reminds me of the crab-like diplomat in a Culture novel whose speech could only be partially understood by musing on it after a couple of hours, while sleeping on it.
Is a history writer allowed to use cryptic poetic language?