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Catalogna: l’assalto al linguaggio

Originale: “Cataluña: el asalto al lenguaje”. Manuel Arias Maldonado. Revista de Libros.  È ben noto che, soltanto due anni dopo la sconfitta del nazismo, il filologo tedesco Viktor Klemperer ha pubblicato un libro di formidabile importanza –dal titolo LTI. Notizbuch eines Philologen– che documentava, a partire dagli appunti presi quotidianamente dall’autore a partire dall’arrivo di Hitler […]

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In English Voices From Spain

Possible Back Then

Originally published in Spanish: «Cataluña: lo posible anterior (I)». Manuel Arias. Revista de Libros. In an entry in his diary, dated on April, 1966, Ricardo Piglia says, by mouth of his alter-ego Emilio Renzi, that he would like sometimes to “go back to certain times in my life, and live them with the awareness I […]

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In English Voices From Spain

Catalonia: The Assault on Language

Originally published in Spanish: «Cataluña: El asalto al lenguaje». Manuel Arias Maldonado. Revista de Libros. It is well known that barely two years after the defeat of Nazism, the German philologist Viktor Klemperer published a remarkably important book, titled LTI. Notizbuch eines Philologen, documenting, from the author’s daily notes since Hitler came to power, which […]

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