Joan Salvat-Papasseit

Monument to the poet in Barcelona (port).

Joan Salvat-Papasseit (born May 16, 1894 in Barcelona , Spain , † August 7, 1924 ibid) was a Catalan poet and author who wrote mainly in Catalan , but wrote several essays in Spanish in his early days .

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Salvat-Papasseit's work spans a period of less than ten years and, after the initial socialist manifestations in 1916, shows a mixture of avant-garde and traditional influences, especially in his poetry. In 1920 he published the First Manifesto of the Catalan Futurists . He founded and was co-founder of three short-lived literary magazines. In 1924 he died of tuberculosis . His grave is in the Cementiri de Montjuïc cemetery in Barcelona.

aftermath

His poems have only become known to a wide audience in the last few decades through quotes and musical arrangements by Catalan songwriters from Spain and France. The songwriters include Lluís Llach , Ovidi Montllor , Guillermina Motta , Xavier Ribalta , Joan Manuel Serrat and Rafael Subirachs as well as Carles Andreu in France.

In the Moll de la Fusta harbor basin in Barcelona, ​​where Salvat-Papasseit worked as a night watchman for some time, there is a statue of the poet created by the Luxembourg sculptor Rob Krier , on the base of which there is a plaque bearing his poem Nocturn per a acordió .

Volumes of poetry

• Poemes en ondes hertzianes (Poems in Hertzian Waves), 1919. The frontispiece was designed by Joaquín Torres García .
• L'irradiador del Port i les gavines (The Port Lighthouse and the Sea Gulls), 1921, Kindler.
• Les conspiracions (The Conspiracies). Llibreria Nacional Catalana, Bercelona 1922.
• La gesta dels estels (The achievements of the stars). La Revista, Barcelona 1922.
• El poema de la rosa as llavis (poem of the rose in the lips), with illustrations by Josep Obiols , also in the form of a cal-ligrama . Llibreria Nacional Catalana, Barcelona 1923.
• Óssa menor (Little Bear), Últimos poemas de vanguardia, acompañados deotros, de diferentes épocas, dispersos. Barcelona 1925 published posthumously.
• Post as a les filles . Ed. de la Magrana, Barcelona 1986, ISBN 84-7410-252-9 .

Essays and articles

• Glosas de un socialista , 1916
• Humo de fábrica , 1918
• Mots propis , a series of Essis influenced by Nietzsche and Joaquin Torres García and printed in the literary magazine Un Enemic del Poble , which he founded, from 1917 to 1919.
• La ploma d'Aristarc , unpublished
• Sóc jo que parlo as joves , 1919
• Concepte de poeta , 1919
• Contra els poetes amb minúscula: primer manifest català futurista , 1920

Complete works and bilingual publications (Catalan, Spanish)

• Obra completa. Poesia i prosa . Galàxia Gutenberg - Cercle de Lectors, Barcelona 2006

bilingual, each translated by José Batlló:

• Antologia . Ediciones Saturno, Barcelona 1972
• Cincuenta poemas de Joan Salvat-Papasseit , Ediciones Lumen, Barcelona 1977
• Poemas de amor , Ediciones Taurus, Madrid 1984

Web links

Commons : Joan Salvat-Papasseit  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• CV (en., Es., Approx.)
• Resume (es.)
• Selected poems (ca./en.) (PDF; 269 kB)
• El poema de la rosa as llavis ( pictorial poem in Catalan, 1923)