Joan Maragall

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Joan Maragall i Gorina
translator, journalist
Literary movementModernisme
Statue in Barcelona's Parc de la Ciutadella, erected in 1913.

Joan Maragall i Gorina (Catalan pronunciation:

translator, the foremost member of the modernisme movement in literature. His manuscripts are preserved in the Joan Maragall Archive
of Barcelona.

Life

Maragall's upper-class family was dedicated to the flourishing textile industry in Barcelona, and after finishing school, Joan Maragall took on his father's job. Having never liked his family's trade, he decided to go to university instead, where he studied law to his father's great disappointment.

However, he dropped out of school and married

Biblioteca de Catalunya and can be visited. He died in 1911 and was buried at the Sant Gervasi Cemetery
Barcelona.

His grandson,

President of Catalonia
.

Work

Maragall's poetry was based on themes drawn from human life and nature. Highly influenced by

. He is best known for his 'theory of the living word', or teoria de la paraula viva, which advocated Nietzschean vitalism and spontaneous or even imperfect writing over colder and over-thought poetry.

In addition to his poetry writing, Maragall published journalism in avant-garde magazines of the time—including L'Avenç, Catalònia and Luz—where he became the leading proponent of Catalan modernisme.

Maragall supported

Iberian Federalism.[1]

Poetic works

Digitized works

Digitization is available through the portal El món de Joan Maragall: Col·lecció visual de la vida i l'obra de l'autor or directly at Memòria Digital de Catalunya

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