Literature and language

For many manifestoes that are published Agustín García Calvo in The Country: The language, gentlemen … Gentlemen: the language does not belong to anybody; this machine of wonderful complexity that you use yourself, “with which the people occurs rarely fablar to his vezino”, does not belong to anybody; not already the common language, which does not appear in the reality...
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Presented in Spain the first dictionary Spanish - Icelandic Son few ones those who know that ‘comforter‘, ’saga’ or ‘geyser‘ are words that, in spite of be using often, come from the Icelandic, a language that slightly more than 300.000 persons speak in the world, and that practically it has not changed from the IXth century, when the Vikings were speaking it....
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Composer of the music of Mike Hammer of Stacy Keach Last Thursday died at the age of 88 Earle Hagen, the musician who composed one of the topics more versioneados of the history of the jazz, the insinuating night Harlem. Of the countless versions that exist, in WFMU they have compiled 42 in mp3. It is sure that it is not...
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Round tables cycle in the House of America of spotted very good Madrid has this minicycle organized by the House of America on The literary life in Madrid of the 20s. On June 12, 2008: Madrid years 20: avenues and forks Table I: With Beatriz Pastor, Iona Zlotescu, Liliana Weinberg. It moderates: Julio Ortega. Entry...
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Stories of mystery and imagination (1) “I Contemplated the stage that it had before me, he marries, the simple scenery of the domain, the emaciated walls, the windows like empty eyes, a few stinking rushes and few trunks of trees withered with a strong depression of fortitude, which I can only compare, like sensation terrena, to the awakening of the smoker...
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Campaign to save a verbal time in extinction A who this will read and understand: Know that the subjunctive mood future is a verbal time in desuetude and that if it will stop being used, it would become extinct definitely. I let's like to do a suggestion to you, if you pluguiere to save to this threatened species. If some any blogueros will write some post in...
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Complete text in PDF Fragmented of On the difficulty of counting, speech of revenue of Javier Marías in the Spanish Royal Academy: As Ortega and Gasset already observed in his old essay of 1937 Misery and splendor of the translation, «long ago, a lot of time, the humanity, at least the western one, does not speak seriously»....
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