Status Updates From Echolalie. O zapominaniu ję...

Going in, I wasn't exactly sure what this book would be about, but now I can say it's about time - specifically the time or times of language, and the deformations to which language subjects time: the way in which the past(s) of language inheres in its present, and so puts precisely that presence of the present in question. Absolutely gripping.

highly recommended to everyone interested in languages, specially on the forgetting of them. Professor H-R cites Freud, Spinoza and Nebrija and Dante. And draws from this multiple author a theory on the original language, it's death and all that reamins in us from Babel... even Paradise and Hell.