Lunatic Lovers of Language: Imaginary Languages and Their Inventors

by Marina Yaguello

This book examines the creation of imaginary languages in history and fiction as an expression of the search for an original, primitive or universal language. Its subjects include the philosophers Descartes and Leibnitz, inventing universal, philosophical languages for the promotion of truth and knowledge; novelists from Cyrano de Bergerac to George Orwell, whose fictions include the languages of inhabitants of imaginary worlds; the spiritualist Swedenberg,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0485113031
• ISBN13: 9780485113037
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Athlone Press
• Length: 256 Pages