March 28, 2007

What and who are ’French writers’ ? New York Times

Alan Riding, International Herald Tribune/New York Times,

With French long engaged in a losing battle against English around the world, a new way of fighting back has been proposed by a multinational group of authors who write in French : Uncouple the language from France and turn French literature into "world literature" written in French.
For guardians of the language of Molière, Voltaire and Victor Hugo (...)

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