Robèrt Lafont

Robert Lafont ( born March 16, 1923 in Nîmes, † June 24, 2009 in Florence) was a French author and high school teacher.

Life

He was co-founder and Chairman of the times, Institut d'Estudis Occitans .. He taught as a professor of linguistics at the Université Montpellier III. In addition to literary works in the Occitan language he composed numerous French-language books in which he turned against the political and cultural centralization of France and represented regionalist positions. In contrast to Jean -François Gravier, who called for a decentralization of economic considerations, Lafont represented an ethnic regionalism. In 1974, he announced a " candidate of the minority " to run for the office of the French president, this project but could not put it into practice. In 1976 he was awarded the Prize of the Ossian FVS Foundation awarded.

Works

  • Sur la France, 1968
  • ( with Christian Anatole ): Nouvelle histoire de la littérature occitane ( New History of Occitan literature), 2 Volumes 1970-1971
  • Décoloniser en France. Les régions face à l'Europe, 1971
  • La révolution régionaliste ( The regionalist Revolution ), 1973
  • Autonomy: de la région à l' autogestion, 1976
  • L' Occitanie's ( Occitania ), 1977, 3rd edition, 1987 ( ISBN 2-232-11190-3 )
  • Le travail et la langue, 1978 ( ISBN 2-08-211114-8 ); German translation: Language as work, 1992 ( ISBN 3-7003-0966- X)
  • Anthropologie de l' écriture ( anthropology of Scripture ), 1984
  • Le dénouement français ( The French solution ), 1985 (ISBN 2-86940-005-5 )
  • La nation, l' état, les régions ( The Nation, the State, the Regions ), 1993 (ISBN 2-900269-81-4 )
  • ( with Françoise Gardes- Madray ): Introduction à l' analyze textual (Introduction to Text Analysis ), 1996 (ISBN 2-84269-004-4 )
  • Histoire et de la littérature occitane anthology, Volume 1 L'âge classique ( 1000-1520 ) (History and Anthology of Occitan literature - the classical age 1000-1520 ), 1997 (ISBN 2-85998-168-3 )
  • L' État et la langue ( The State and Language ), 2008 (ISBN 978-2-35122-047-4 )
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