Joan Maragall: creació, traducció i reescriptura by Francesco Ardolino

“…If his first goal was to bestow cultural support to Catalan literature with the addition of the European authors of Modernism, the second stage of the Catalan poet’s agenda becomes more ambitious, delving into the origins of Western literature and culminating in the translation of the Homeric Hymns.My contribution analyzes how, on the one hand, the Catalan rewriting of the works of Nietzsche, Goethe, Novalis, or Dante draws a progressive and continuous line within Maragall’s ideas; and, on the other hand, what impact these versions have on his own literary creation, through the loanwords that spread across his translations, and his poetry.…”
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The Armenia archive. A Ramon Llull project by Amador Vega

“…Centring on a reading of the Vita Coaetanea by the Majorcan philosopher, poet and mystic Ramon Llull (1232-1316), my aim in what follows is to perform a mode of thought at the crossroads between scientific treatise, autobiography, historical document and literary fiction. …”
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