Juan Marsé

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Juan Marsé (1991)

Juan Marsé (born January 8, 1933 in Barcelona , maiden name Juan Faneca Roca ; † July 18, 2020 ibid), was a Spanish writer who achieved international fame and was awarded the Cervantes Prize, among other things .

Life

After his mother died in childbirth, Juan Faneca Roca was adopted by the Marsé couple and took their family name. He was a poor student and started working in a jewelry store as a teenager. For some time he was also employed by the film magazine Arcinema in Barcelona.

He published his first short stories in 1958 in the magazines Ínsula and El Ciervo . A year later he received his first literary award, the "Sésamo de cuentos", for his story Nada para morir . In 1960 his first novel Encerrados con un solo juguete was published .

From 1959 to 1962 he lived in Paris , where he worked as a Spanish teacher, translator and laboratory assistant at the Pasteur Institute . He then returned to Barcelona, ​​where he published Esta cara de la luna in 1962 , a text that he later excluded from his Collected Works. He was also active in the advertising industry and as a writer of film scripts; as a journalist, he was editor-in-chief of the magazines Boccaccio and Por favor .

In 1966 he married Joaquina Hoyas, with whom he had a son in 1968 and a daughter in 1970.

In 1988/1989 he published a column in the daily newspaper El País under the title Aventuras del capitán Blay .

The 1990s brought his international breakthrough as a writer: in 1990 he received the “Premio Ateneo de Sevilla” literary prize for the novel El amante bilingüe (which was later to be made into a film); In 1994 he was awarded the “Premio de la Crítica” and the “Aristeion Prize” for El embrujo de Shanghai .

His work has been translated into many languages; among others into Polish, English, French, German, Romanian and Hungarian. Some of his texts were made into films or adapted for the theater, such as Últimas tardes con Teresa , Si te dicen que caí , La muchacha de las bragas de oro and El amante bilingüe . In 2008 he received the Cervantes Prize , one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the Spanish-speaking world; He was also repeatedly discussed for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Marsé died in the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau .

Work characteristics

Juan Marsé belonged to the so-called "Generation of 1950"; his first great success was the 1966 novel Last Days with Teresa . The novel When You Are Told I Have Fallen ... could not appear in the Spain of the Franco dictatorship and was therefore published in Mexico.

Most of his novels are set in Barcelona in the 1940s. As in his novel The Magic of Shanghai , he succeeded in masterfully mixing reality and fantasy and creating a portrait of society in the process.

For his novel Voices in the Gorge , which depicts Barcelona in Franco's time from the perspective of an embryo, he received the Premio Nacional de la Crítica in 2001 and the Premio Nacional de Literatura in the same year for his complete works .

Works

  • 1961: Encerrados con un solo juguete
  • 1962: Esta cara de la luna
  • 1966: Últimas tardes con Teresa ( Eng . Last days with Teresa , 1988, ISBN 3-89151-056-X )
  • 1970: La oscura historia de la prima Montse (Eng. The obscure love of Montserrat Claramunt , 1991, ISBN 3-423-13185-3 )
  • 1973: Si te dicen que caí (Eng. When you are told that I have fallen ... , 1986, ISBN 3-89151-023-3 )
  • 1978: La muchacha de las bragas de oro
  • 1982: Un diá volveré
  • 1984: Ronda del Guinardó (German Ronda del Guinardó , 1991, ISBN 3-89151-080-2 )
  • 1990: El amante bilingüe (German The Bilingual Lover , 1993, ISBN 3-89151-163-9 )
  • 1993: El embrujo de Shanghai (Eng. The Magic of Shanghai , 1995, ISBN 3-423-13040-7 )
  • 2000: Rabos de lagartija (German voices in the gorge , 2002, ISBN 3-446-20218-8 )
  • 2004: La gran desilusión
  • 2005: Canciones de amor en Lolita's club (German: ways of love in Lolita's club , Wagenbach, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8031-3213-0 )
  • 2011: Caligrafía de los sueños (German calligraphy of dreams , Wagenbach, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8031-3240-6 )
  • 2014: Noticias felices en aviones de papel (German. Good news on paper planes . Translation Dagmar Ploetz . Wagenbach, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8031-1315-3 )
  • 2015: Una puta muy querida

Film adaptations

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Sebastian Schoepp: On the death of Juan Marsé , SZ, July 20, 2020, p. 10

Web links

Commons : Juan Marsé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual proof

  1. ↑ The author of the "little man", Juan Marsé, is dead. In: Zeit Online . July 19, 2020, accessed July 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Marsé, Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Juan Faneca Roca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH 18th July 2020
Place of death Barcelona