| Joan Maragall i Gorina | |
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 Joan Maragall, by Pau Audouard dated 1903. |
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| Born | October 10, 1860 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Died | December 20, 1911 (aged 51) Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Occupation | Poet, translator, journalist |
| Literary movement | Modernisme |
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Joan Maragall i Gorina (October 10, 1860 in Barcelona – December 20, 1911) was a Spanish Catalan poet, journalist and translator, the foremost member of the modernisme movement in literature.
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Life
Maragall's upper-class family was dedicated to the flourishing textile industry in Barcelona, and after finishing school, Joan Maragall took on his father's job. Having never liked his family's trade, he decided to go to university instead where he studied law. Unfortunately, he never finished. Instead he dropped out of school and married Clara Noble, with whom he had 13 children. In 1904 he won all three prizes awarded by the Jocs Florals in Barcelona, and was proclaimed Mestre en Gai Saber. His private home in Sant Gervasi was bought by the Biblioteca de Catalunya and can be visited.
His grandson Pasqual Maragall would become mayor of Barcelona and subsequently President of Catalonia.
Work
Maragall's poetry was based on life and nature. Highly influenced by German-language authors such as Nietzsche, Novalis and Goethe, all of which he translated into Catalan, his poetry went through decadentist and vitalist periods. He is best known for his 'theory of the living word', or teoria de la paraula viva, which advocated Nietzschean vitalism and spontaneous or even imperfect writing over colder and thought-over poetry.
In addition to his poetry writing, he also cultivated journalism in the main avantgarde magazines of the time: L'Avenç, Catalònia and Luz, from where he became the main figure of the Catalan modernisme.
Poetic works
- Poesies (1895)
- Visions i Cants (1900)
- Les Disperses (1904)
- Enllà (1906)
- Seqüències (1911)
- includes the poem La fageda d'en Jordà
See also
- Modernisme
- Catalan literature
- Casa Museu Arxiu Maragall
External links
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