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Zaldua, Iban

 
9781935709701: This Strange and Powerful Language: Eleven Crucial Decisions a Basque Writer Is Obliged to Face
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ISBN 10 : 1935709704 ISBN 13 : 9781935709701
Editeur : Center for Basque Studies Press, 2016

Synopsis

"This mysterious language, it is very strange, very powerful," This is how critic George Steiner responded when asked about the survival of the Basque language. Basque is a language isolate, related to none other. It is therefore understandable that Basque literature is mostly unknown, even though much of it is now available in Spanish and English translations. In This Strange and Powerful Language: Eleven Crucial Decisions a Basque Writer Is Obliged to Face, Basque novelist and essayist Iban Zaldua set himself the task of providing a guide for outsiders to contemporary Basque authors. His concise and readable guide was winner of the 2015 Euskadi Prize, the highest literary honor in the Basque country. This Strange and Powerful Language is a non-academic work designed for students, teachers, and the general reader. Steiner argued that, while Basque was mysterious and ancient, it was also unimportant-- a minor language incapable of supporting a body of literature. Zaldua shows that the truth is just the opposite. Moreover, by choosing to write in Basque, authors inevitably face intriguing literary and political questions of subject matter, point of view, and audience.

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À propos de l'auteur

Novelist and critic Iban Zaldua was born in Donostia-San Sebastian in 1966. His previous fiction titles include: Ipuin euskaldunak (Basque Stories, co-authored with Gerardo Markuleta); Gezurrak, gezurrak, gezurrak (Lies, lies, lies); Traizioak (Betrayals) and La isla de los antropólogos y otros relatos (Island of Anthropologists and Other Stories). In 2006 he won the top honor for Basque authors, the Euskadi Prize, for Etorkizuna: hamabost ipuin ia politiko (The Future: Fifteen Almost Political Stories). He is a regular contributor to newspapers and other media in the Basque Country. He currently lives in Vitoria-Gasteiz and is Professor of Economic History at the University of the Basque Country. (from Basque blog)

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Éditeur
Center for Basque Studies Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1935709704
ISBN 13 
9781935709701
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
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Personne responsable
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