Each year, in this world, several languages do die out. There are certain languages that have their survival assured for many years, such as English, but there are other languages whose survival is not so sure, such as Catalan, especially if they don't have a state that protects them. Catalan is spoken in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, and Andorra. There are about ten million people who understand it and eight and a half who can speak it. But its future is much less certain than, for example, Danish or Slovenian or Latvian, because they have a state.
Each year, in this world, several languages do die out. There are certain languages that have their survival assured for many years, such as English,… - Jaume Cabre
Each year, in this world, several languages do die out. There are certain languages that have their survival assured for many years, such as English,…
- Jaume Cabre
Everywhere you go you find readers who are interested, even though the story takes place here in this very neighborhood. It doesn't matter that it ta… - Jaume Cabre
Everywhere you go you find readers who are interested, even though the story takes place here in this very neighborhood. It doesn't matter that it ta…
Research is necessary. However, you need to make sure you don't fall into its trap. You need to have time left for writing. To avoid the trap, I just… - Jaume Cabre
Research is necessary. However, you need to make sure you don't fall into its trap. You need to have time left for writing. To avoid the trap, I just…
I'm always reading, and you learn a lot by reading. When I was twenty-five, I read a lot, but didn't have much reading behind me. - Jaume Cabre
I'm always reading, and you learn a lot by reading. When I was twenty-five, I read a lot, but didn't have much reading behind me.
I take all my characters very seriously - the main, secondary, and supporting characters. Even if they only appear once, they still need to have thei… - Jaume Cabre
I take all my characters very seriously - the main, secondary, and supporting characters. Even if they only appear once, they still need to have thei…
There were many books in my parents' home. I'm from a family of five children and we were all readers. And so by the time I left home, I had already … - Jaume Cabre
There were many books in my parents' home. I'm from a family of five children and we were all readers. And so by the time I left home, I had already …
I'm interested in how memory and power come together in evil. These are obsessions of mine that appear throughout, like the theme of music. I know at… - Jaume Cabre
I'm interested in how memory and power come together in evil. These are obsessions of mine that appear throughout, like the theme of music. I know at…
What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something I've been working on… - Jaume Cabre
What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something I've been working on…
The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time. - Jaume Cabre
The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.
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