Noucentisme and Avant-Garde Poetry in Catalan Literature
Noucentista Poets: A Literary Movement
The most prominent Noucentista poets include:
- Jaume Bofill, under the pseudonym of Guerau de Liost (Ametistesi, the mountain city of ivory)
- Jose Maria Lopez-Pico
- Josep Carner: (poetry) Tasty Fruits, eighteen poems describing different ages and stages of human life, Doggerel and Fans, Ironic Laparaula in the Wind, Beautiful People and Beautiful Land, Patriotica.
Avant-Garde Poets and Their Innovations
Joan Salvat Papaseit: Cubism and Futurism
Joan Salvat Papaseit: A Cubist, an enemy of the journal People First, and author of the Futurist manifesto “Against the Poets in Case.”
Early works include poems such as Irradiador hertz waves in the harbor and Seagulls with Cubist and Futurist elements. Conspiracies has a nationalist approach, and The Achievement of the Kite combines tradition and avant-garde. His masterpiece is Poem of Pink Lips, focusing on the amorous process. His latest work was the compilation Cynosure.
Josep Vicenç Foix: Political and Aesthetic Elements
Josep Vicenç Foix: This includes political and aesthetic items, representing a diffusion of poetic avant-gardes, such as “Some Considerations About the Avant-Garde Literature.” In poetic prose, Foix wanted to collect the 365 volume “Newspaper,” but only 208 collections are preserved, such as: Gertrude, KRTU Newspaper, The Star de’n Perris. His poetry includes three plays in verse: Ask, and Mourning, in which seventy sonnets see Foix drawing on the tradition of classical literary Occitania, Spain, and Italy, covering philosophical topics. The Unreal-Omegas: thirteen poems with extensive political and cultural issues. Eleven Christmas and New Year, focused on these festivities.
Carles Riba: Post-Symbolist Exponent
Carles Riba (post-symbolist max exponent): The first poem book shows Noucentiste influence. The second book captures post-symbolist poetry, as in Three Suites. Later highlights include the civil war Bierville Elegies, and Sell the Game and Followed the Fire, Wild Heart Sketch Three Oratorios.
Joan Oliver: Versatility Across Literary Genres
Joan Oliver, Peter Quarter: His work covers all literary genres: fiction, drama, poetry, prose, and translation of theatrical authors. Before the war: Poem Beheadings. During the war: Ode to Barcelona (revolutionary and nationalist). Exiled, he collaborated with the magazine Salon d’Automne Germanor. His poem is marked by the experience of exile and returned to near post-symbolism in Barcelona Land Naufragis. Paid Holidays! is a key work critical of society and the Church of Franco.
Salvador Espriu: Novels, Short Stories, and Poetry
Salvador Espriu: Novels (Dr. Rip and Laia), short story collections (Aspectes and Ariadne in the Labyrinth Grutesc), Poetry (Sinera Cemetery, The Hours, Mrs. Death, The Foot and the Wall, The Maze and End of Songs ‘Ariadne’). The Bull’s Skin was a key book. Poemaris: Sinera Book, Easter, and For Good People.
Miquel Martí i Pol: From Wind and Words to Patriotic Reflection
Miquel Martí i Pol: The first stage: The Wind and Words Fifteen poemes. In the Sixties: The People, Fabrica. Later wrote: Twenty-Seven Times in Three and Five Poems Carved on the Wall, reflecting the experience of loving malaltia. Poetry (Dear Marta). Patriotic reflection (the scope of all areas).
Vicent Andrés Estellés: Personal Poetry and Popularity
Vicent Andrés Estellés: Very personal poetry published in the fifties (City in Your Ear) and sixties (The Lover of Life). Maxima popularitata with the book And the Wall Marevelles Valencia.
Gabriel Ferrater: Short and Lyrical Work
Gabriel Ferrater: Short lyrical work titled Women and Days.