Llorenç Villalonga
Llorenç Villalonga , completely Llorenç Villalonga i Pons ; Spanish Lorenzo Villalonga (born March 1, 1897 in Palma ; † January 28, 1980 ibid) was a Spanish writer and psychiatrist.
Life
Villalonga studied medicine and specialized in psychiatry (1919–1927). He then practiced as a doctor in Palma, first in a private practice, then at the city's psychiatric hospital. He was also secretary of the Medical Association of the Balearic Islands .
His literary work was characterized by long pauses, the alternate use of Catalan and Spanish, and the changes in society after the Spanish Civil War . In 1931, Mort de dama (Death of a Lady) appeared, a novel that on the one hand describes the lifestyle of his time and on the other hand caused a great scandal due to its extravagance. Fedra (1932) turned his intimate friendship with the Cuban poet Emilia Bernal into a myth. From 1932 to 1934 he was head of Brisas , one of the most famous magazines in Mallorca. Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War , he largely withdrew and, apart from a few articles, hardly took part in literary life. In 1945, however, he was apparently already working on his main work, Bearn o la sala de les nines (Senyor Bearn's Puppet Cabinet , 1961). In this novel, which has some parallels with The Leopard of Lampedusa , Villalonga created a poetic hymn of praise to a lost paradise and elevated the decadent world of the rural aristocracy of Mallorca at the end of the 19th century to a myth, which war and tourism finally buried. This was followed, among many other publications, L'hereva de donya Obdúlia (The Heiress of Mrs. Obdulia, 1964), Falses memòries (False Memoirs, 1967), El misantrop (The Misanthrope, 1972), and Un estiu a Mallorca (A summer in Mallorca , 1975).
Also worth mentioning are his plays Fedra (1932), Silvia Ocampo (1935) and Desbarats (1965), as well as the collection of articles Centro (1934).
See also
Web links
Biography at www.escriptors.cat, short version in German
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b biography at escriptors.cat , accessed on May 19, 2013 (Catalan)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Villalonga, Llorenç |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Villalonga i Pons, Llorenç (full name); Villalonga, Lorenzo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | spanish author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Palma |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1980 |
| Place of death | Palma |