More than 100 years later the effects of scale have consolidated the literary market France still has a special position in the arbitrage of taste see Casanova but in many areas of writing other langua

The consolidation of the literary market over the past century has led to the dominance of English as the essential language for publication. World literary recognition, such as the Nobel Prize, continues to confer fame on individual authors and their nations. However, the process of gaining fame is not always just, as illustrated by the examples of Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard. While Andersen's fairy tales achieved widespread popularity due to their general comprehensibility, Kierkegaard, a difficult writer in a small language, was initially overlooked. Time, translation, and the rise of existential philosophy have since increased Kierkegaard's recognition, but he will never achieve the same level of fame as Andersen