In Oviedo, with Alarcos y others (1975-1991)

Abstract

The author recounts his memories of the years he spent at the University of Oviedo, between 1975 and 1991, as Professor of "Latin Language and Literature": his close friendship with Professor Alarcos, his more or less close relationship with the rest of the teaching staff of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, and some of the main events in the academic and social life of the Faculty. He recounts the creation of a Classical Philology Section, the incorporation of the high school professors who taught at the University as full professors, the demand for Bable as the language of the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, as "llingua asturiana", an initiative that Alarcos, a pioneer in the study of Bable, refused to accept, and the proposal to create a degree in "Asturian Philology".