The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongues by Wendy Lesser

The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongues

Wendy Lesser

256 pages hardcover 2004

5 editions

nonfiction essays informative reflective slow-paced
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The 15 writers gathered in this often delightful collection consider the impact their bilingualism has had on the development of their craft: they would all agree with Luc Sante, who writes of his inexorable "internal foreignness." All the writers...

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