This Strange and Powerful Language - Iban Zaldua - Books - Center for Basque Studies UV of Nevada,  - 9781935709701 - August 22, 2016
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This Strange and Powerful Language

Iban Zaldua

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This Strange and Powerful Language

"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 the 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.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 22, 2016
ISBN13 9781935709701
Publishers Center for Basque Studies UV of Nevada,
Pages 216
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 6 mm   ·   281 g
Language English