Màrius Torres

Màrius Torres i Perenya (born August 30, 1910 in Lleida , † December 29, 1942 in Sant Quirze Safaja ) was a Catalan poet .

Life

Monument to Màrius Torres in Lleida

Màrius Torres came from a middle-class family in the district capital Lleida; the father was a member of the Catalan Parliament. He was interested in literature from an early age and began to write his first pieces in school; He also wrote poems and articles for literary and cultural magazines during his medical studies in Barcelona.

At the end of 1935, shortly after settling as a doctor in Lleida, he fell ill with tuberculosis and was taken to the Puigdolena sanatorium near Sant Quirze Safaja (province of Barcelona), which he was not to leave until his death. Here he deepened his preoccupation with literature and wrote most of his poetic oeuvre. He met Mercè Figueres, a fellow patient, to whom he dedicated the series of poems Cançons a Mahalta , which are among his most famous works. Through her sister he met the writer Joan Sales , with whom a close friendship developed; Sales posthumously obtained the first (and for a long time only) edition of his poems.

Màrius Torres is known as a postal symbolist; he decidedly did not join the currents of modernity, but was a rather contemplative observer of growth and decay, who clearly felt his own transience and addressed it. At the same time, with his poetry, which uses traditional, predominantly rhymed and metrically bound forms, he set a counterpoint to the desolate reality of the civil war and the incipient Franquism.

At the end of the 1960s, Màrius Torres was rediscovered by a broader readership in Catalan-speaking countries and has been part of the traditional canon here ever since. A school in Lleida is named after him (which he attended at the time) as well as a poetry award and a professorship at the University of Lleida (Càtedra Màrius Torres). On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Màrius Torres, the University of Lleida hosted an international symposium, which was followed by another in 2017. Torres' poetry has now been translated into German, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Spanish.

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Poetry . Edited by Joan Sales. Coyoacán (Mexico): Quaderns de l'exili, 1947; reissued several times.
Poesies de Màrius Torres . Edited by Margarida Prats. Lleida: Pagès, 2010.
Four poems, translated into German by Alexandra Bernhardt in the magazine Der Dackel. Sheets for Asphalt Literature No. 1 (2016).
Poetry / poems . Catalan / German. Selected and transmitted by Àxel Sanjosé . With a foreword by Margarida Prats Ripoll. Aachen: Rimbaud, 2019.

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personal data
SURNAME	Torres, Màrius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Torres i Perenya, Màrius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catalan lyric poet
DATE OF BIRTH	August 30, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lleida
DATE OF DEATH	December 29, 1942
Place of death	Sant Quirze Safaja

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