La llengua dels amics. Una autobiografia lingüística
The Northern Catalan writer Joan-Daniel Bezsonoff—of Russian and Catalan descent and educated in France—has embraced the language of his maternal grandparents and of so many friends on both sides of the border: Catalan.
La llengua dels amics blends essay and memoir, pairing accessible erudition with
wry, ironic observation.
In these pages, Bezsonoff offers a heartfelt declaration of love for the Catalan language, so fragile in the regions under French administration. Family stories, personal growth, the people he has met, the books he has read, and his keenest observations all come together in a book that also opens the door to the world of a French intellectual who has become a Catalan author—who speaks nine languages and considers himself a citizen of the world from his small village of Nils, nine kilometers from Perpignan.
