/lit/ - Literature

if he can do it, you can do it

HERVIER: Do you feel that the Americanization of Europe and the invasion of its languages by English share some of the responsibility [for linguistic degradation]?

JÜNGER: Léautaud, for example, would have preferred a German victory to an American one, for cultural reasons.
But certain facts point in the opposite direction. There are excellent novelists in America, better ones than here: Hemingway, Faulkner, and so many others. Their works are valuable for their subjects as much as for the great quality of their style. Even if [our ]language loses a great deal of syntactical richness through contact with English, we may nevertheless wonder why it is, that the British have such a remarkable poetry.