A query on translation

[Cyrus]

If you don't mind, I would like to pose a question which has been 
bugging me lately:

Have any of you read a novel both in the original and in (good) 
translation to your native language? Have you noticed any difference in 
the way you perceive the two texts? -- as if (forgive me for being 
simplistic) the translation addresses a "deeper" area in your brain? -- 
as if your reading becomes less "intellectual" and more "direct", 
"intuitive" and "intrinsic"?

Cyrus