Doktoro Esperanto's Dream

By ILAN STAVANS

A made-up language still speaks to transnational ideals

Doktoro Esperanto was the pseudonym used by Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof when he constructed, in 1887, a manual for Russian readers on a utopian language he had been devising since adolescence. It was an artificial tongue, made to bring peace to humanity. Soon the language became known as Esperanto (the word translates as "Hopeful"), and for more than 100 years, it has spread across the globe, not quite at lightning speed but in a

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