El nou model de llengua literària de València
ISSN: 0213-5949
Year of publication: 2008
Issue: 22
Pages: 145-176
Type: Article
More publications in: Catalan Review: international journal of Catalan culture
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Abstract
This essay offers an overview of a new model of literary language for Valencian. It is apparent that to create good literature, today's writers need not banish their particular dialect -rather, to make universal literature one must start with the local, steeped in its own milieu, its places, its culture, in order to create a work anchored in local human problems. The successful writer takes advantage of lexical creativity and wrests every drop of meaning from that language; we find this success in the works of authors like Toni Cucarella, Josep Piera or Josep Lozano.