Joan Sales
Joan Sales i Vallès (born November 19, 1912 in Barcelona , † November 12, 1983 ibid) was a Catalan writer, translator and publisher.
Life
Sales, who studied law in Catalonia after graduating from school , was a member of the PSUC, the Catalan branch of the Spanish Communist Party , in his youth . In later years he distanced himself from communism and became a supporter of Catalanism . During the Spanish Civil War he fought for the Republicans in Madrid and Aragon . After the defeat of the Republicans, Sales fled to France, in 1940 he emigrated to Haiti and in 1942 went to Mexico, where he turned back to the Christian faith. In 1948 he returned to Catalonia, where he initially worked as a literary advisor at the Ariel publishing house. Later, together with his wife Núria Folch, he founded the Club Editor publishing house with the aim of promoting Catalan literature. Mercè Rodoreda's great novel Auf der Plaça del Diamant (1962) was published by this publisher . As a translator, Sales translated works by Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Nikos Kazantzakis , Gustave Flaubert and François Mauriac into Catalan or Spanish.
As a writer, Sales was best known for his novel Incerta Glòria , which in 1956 could only be printed in a censored version.
Works
- 1950 Rondalles escollides de Guimerà, Casaponce i Alcover .
- 1951 Rondalles gironines i valencianes .
- 1952 Rondalles d'ahir i avui .
- 1952 Viatge d'un moribund
- 1953 Rondalles escollides de Ramon Llull, Mistral i Verdaguer .
- 1956 Incerta Glòria , final, greatly expanded version: 1971
- Fleeting shine . Translation of Kirsten Brandt. Hanser, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24910-3
- 1972 En Tirant lo Blanc a Grècia, òpera bufa
- 1976 Cartes a Màrius Torres
- 1983 El vent de nit
- 1986 Cartes de la guerra
literature
- Eberhard Geisler : Who was Joan Sales? Reference to an author . In: Zeitschrift für Katalanistik 23 (2010), 89–116.
Web links
- Literature by and about Joan Sales in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Joan Sales in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Joan Sales at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sales, Joan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sales i Vallès, Joan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catalan writer, translator and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1983 |
| Place of death | Barcelona |