Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
The notion that French is spoken only in France is factually wrong. Consequently the claim that French literature targets the French public is arguably wrong as well. Either French is a world language or it is only spoken by the French public, you cannot have it both ways.
Not only in my opinion is French a world language. [...]
Yann's (English) quote of Gallimard's claim doesn't say any- where that French literature targets the French public /ex- clusively/.
Tim