Caterina Albert i Paradís

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Caterina Albert i Paradís (born September 11, 1869 in L'Escala , Alt Empordà , Catalonia ; † January 27, 1966 ibid) was a Spanish author, known by her pseudonym Víctor Català . It is assigned to Modernismo or Modernisme Català ('Catalan Modernism'), the cultural and social renewal movement in the Catalan-speaking area.

life and work

Grave site on the Cementiri Vell de l'Escala

Caterina Albert grew up in the rural area of ​​L'Escala. She wrote novels, short stories and plays. With her work began the tradition of Catalan literature written by women. As a pseudonym she used a male identity as Víctor Català, just as some of her contemporaries had to hide the true authorship. Her work is divided into three creative periods, the first being the works up to 1907.

After her theatrical monologue La infanticida (The Child Murderer), which was awarded the Jocs Florals d'Olot in 1898 , caused a scandal, she turned to writing stories and achieved a certain degree of fame with her anthology Drames rurals (Ländliche Dramen, 1902 ), which gave the name to an entire movement and was enthusiastically received. La infanticida contains in a naturalistic way the infanticide of a child resulting from a seduction and the mental situation resulting from it. The scandalous thing was that this was written by a woman at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when such subjects were taboo in Catholic conservative Spain. Here she dealt with the question of the “artistic thematic limits of an author”. In the dramas rurals, too , she shows the actual reality, which was in contrast to the otherwise predominant romanticising glorification of Catalan rural life. This was followed by the Reculls d'ombrívoles (Shadows, 1904) and Caires vius (Sharp Edges, 1907) with stories that are shaped by violence, death and madness.

In 1905 she published the novel Solitud , which was considered a masterpiece and was translated into German almost immediately into several European languages ​​under the title Sankt Pons (1909). This novel, one of the classics of Catalan literature, describes the path to emancipation for a woman based on the story of a free and independent existence. Her works were formative for a number of other writers, e. B. Mercè Rodoreda .

After a period without literary creation during the Noucentisme , the work of Caterina Albert took on new forms: In 1926 she created Un film (3,000 meters) (A film (3,000 meters)), in which she worked with cinema techniques. Further stories followed in the anthologies La mare balena (Die Walmutter, 1920) and Contrallums (Gegenlicht, 1930), which contain some of her best stories.

After the end of the war, a third creative period followed with the works Vida mòlta ( Gemahlenes Leben, 1950) and Jubileu (Jubilee, 1951), whose stories already reflected the changed social circumstances in Spain. In the volume Mosaic (III) (1946) she published articles with autobiographical features written in 1903.

Works

A complete edition of their works was most recently published by Ed under the title Obras completes . Selecta in Barcelona 1972. Period of Modernism

  • 1901: El cant dels mesos , poems
  • 1901: Quatre monòlegs
  • 1902: Drames rurals , short stories
  • 1904: Ombrívoles , short stories
  • 1905: Llibre Blanc-Policromi-Tríptic , poems
  • 1905: Solitud , Roman
    • German edition: Sankt Pons. Novel. S. Fischer, Berlin 1909. Translator: Eberhard Vogel.
    • New translation: Solitud. Novel. With an afterword by Jordi Puntí. Translated from the Catalan by Petra Zickmann. SchirmerGraf, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-86555-042-2 (Paperback 2009: ISBN 978-3-492-25251-5 )
  • 1907: Caires Vius , short stories

From 1907

  • 1920: La Mare-Balena , short stories
  • 1926: Un film 3,000 meters , novel
  • 1928: Marines , anthology
  • 1930: Contrallums , short stories

From 1944

  • 1944: Retablo , short stories, Spanish
  • 1946: Mosaic
  • 1950: Vida mòlta , short stories
  • 1951: Jubileu , stories
  • 1951: Obres Completes , complete edition

After the German edition of Solitud , published in 1909 and the new translation around 100 years after the first edition, only one short story by Catarina Albert was translated into German:

  • Carnival. In: Catalan storytellers. Manesse, Zurich 1978, pp. 42-58. Original title Carnestoltes from the volume Caires Vius , translated by Johannes Hösle.

Awards

She was a member of the Acadèmia de la Llengua Catalana since 1917 and a member of the Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona since 1923 .

literature

  • Francesca Bartrina: Caterina Albert / Víctor Català. La voluptuositat de l'escriptura (=  Capsa de Pandora. Sèrie assaig; 2 ). Eumo, Vic 2005, ISBN 84-7602-727-3 .
  • Jordi Boix, Lurdes Boix i Llonch: Els Paisatges de Caterina Albert i Paradís, Víctor Català. Un itinerari històric i literari a través dels indrets vinculats a l'escriptora de l'Escala . Ajuntament de l'Escala, L'Escala 2005, ISBN 84-606-3811-1 .
  • Víctor Català, Joan Oller i Rabassa: Quincalla. Mil adagis per aprendre vocabulari. Edicions 62, Barcelona 2005, ISBN 84-297-5605-1 ( preview in Google Book Search).
  • Jordi Castellanos: Victor Català. In: Riquer, Comas, Molas: Història de la literatura catalana . Volume 8th Ed. Ariel, Barcelona 1985, pp. 579-623.
  • Jordi Castellanos: Victor Català, escriptora. In: Literatura, vides, ciutats. (= Universitària. 6). Edicions 62, Barcelona 1997, pp. 51-110.
  • Jordi Castellanos: “Solitud”, novel·la modernista. In: Els Marges. Barcelona, ​​No. 25, 1982, pp. 45-70.
  • Ricard Guanter i Flaqué: Caterina Albert i Paradís, Víctor Català, vista per un escalenc. Allò que les biografies no diuen . CCG Edicions, CCG Edicions 2006, ISBN 84-96444-57-0 .
  • Josep Miracle: Caterina Albert i Paradís (Víctor Català) (=  Pinya de rosa . No. 30 ). Dopesa, Barcelona 1978, ISBN 84-7235-373-7 .
  • Irene Muñoz i Pairet (ed.): Epistolari de Víctor Català . Vol. 1. CCG Edicions, Girona 2005, ISBN 84-95483-99-8 .
  • Núria Nardi: Víctor Català. In: Joaquim Amat-Piniella: KL Reich. (= Història de la Literatura Catalana. 2). Edicions 62, Barcelona 1984, ISBN 84-7530-577-6 , pp. 93-104.
  • Joan Oller i Rabassa: Biografia de Víctor Català . Rafael Dalmau, Barcelona 1967.
  • Lluís Albert i Rivas: Víctor Català, una biografia insòlita. Recull de proses i poesies inèdites . Brau, Figueres 2012, ISBN 978-84-96905-82-5 .

Meetings

  • Actes de les primeres Jornades d'estudi sobre la vida i obra de Caterina Albert Paradís "Víctor Català" . L'Escala, 9-11 d'abril de 1992, a cura d'Enric Prat i Pep Vila. Ajuntament de l'Escala, PAM, Barcelona 1993.
  • II Jornades d'estudi Vida i obra de Caterina Albert (Víctor Català), 1869–1966 . L'Escala, 20, 21 i 22 de setembre 2001. Ajuntament de l'Escala, PAM, Barcelona 2002.
  • Actes de les terceres jornades d'estudi sobre la vida i l'obra de Caterina Albert Paradís "Víctor Català" . en ocasió del centenari de "Solitud" 1905-2005. Edició a cura d'Enric Prat i Pep Vila. Curbet, Girona 2006.
  • Marta Pessarrodona (Ed.): Caterina Albert, cent anys de la publicació de Solitud . Simposi celebrat a la Residència d'Investigadors CSIC-Generalitat de Catalunya els dies 18 i 19 de novembre de 2005. Generalitat de Barcelona, ​​Barcelona 2007.

Web links

Commons : Víctor Català  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tomàs Garcés: Conversa amb Victor Català. In: Víctor Català: Obras completes. Selecta, Barcelona 1951, p. 1748.
  2. ↑ Catalan literature , website of the Goethe University, Frankfurt on May, accessed on May 21, 2013.
  3. ^ Ferran Robles i Sabater: Bibliografia de la literatura catalana en versió alemanya - narrativa, poesia, teatre. (= Biblioteca Catalànica Germànica. Supplements to the magazine for Catalan Studies. Volume 1). Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2005, ISBN 3-8322-3361-X , p. 45, uni-frankfurt.de (PDF; 1.82 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Albert i Paradís, Caterina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Català, Víctor (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish author
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH L'Escala
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1966
Place of death L'Escala