Nationalization of Languages: Literary Debate in Europe in the 1930's

lecture by

Philippe Roussin

This lecture is aiming at encoding the preconditions and the essence of the arguments about the opposition of written against spoken language, science against vernacular language, living against dead language, which are at the hub of numerous debates that cross the literature fields in France, Europe and the USA during the 1930's (George Orwell, Carlo E. Gadda, William Carlos Williams). In general the problem involves the disputes about the culture of the elite, people’s culture, culture of the masses, community culture and the antagonism between “high” and “low”.

January 13 (Friday), 6.00 p.m.
The Red House Centre for Culture an Debate, Red hall
Tickets: 2/1 BGN

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