Ives Roqueta
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Ives Roqueta (ˈives ruˈketo) (born 29 February 1936 in Sète
, Hérault
) is an Occitan author. For a long time now, Roqueta has played a major role in the country's political and cultural movement. He was the president of the IEO for a number of years and his brother Joan, better known as Joan Larzac, is a writer and an Occitan activist as well. He founded the Ventadorn record company, which can be credited for providing Nòva cançon
singers with a proficient media outlet.
Some think that he's one of the pioneers of his generation and stands among the nation's most talented poets and novelists.
Other Occitan analysts say that he had a very negative impact over the occitanist movement during the end of the 1970s and the 1980s. Particularly, his anti-scholar positions led to the split of the IEO in 1981.
Sète
Sète is a commune in the Hérault department in Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France. Its inhabitants are called Sétois....
, Hérault
Hérault
Hérault is a department in the south of France named after the Hérault river.-History:Hérault is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...
) is an Occitan author. For a long time now, Roqueta has played a major role in the country's political and cultural movement. He was the president of the IEO for a number of years and his brother Joan, better known as Joan Larzac, is a writer and an Occitan activist as well. He founded the Ventadorn record company, which can be credited for providing Nòva cançon
Nòva cançon
Nòva cançon , or Nòva chançon , "New Song", is a musical renewal wave that swept through Occitania in the 1970s. Its leaders were Joan Pau Verdier, Claudi Martí, Patric, Maria Roanet and Mans de Breish, most of whom are still very active singers. Nòva cançon was a phenomenon similar to Catalonia's...
singers with a proficient media outlet.
Controversy
His cultural and political action is highly controversial.Some think that he's one of the pioneers of his generation and stands among the nation's most talented poets and novelists.
Other Occitan analysts say that he had a very negative impact over the occitanist movement during the end of the 1970s and the 1980s. Particularly, his anti-scholar positions led to the split of the IEO in 1981.
Poems
- L'Escriveire public (The Letter-Writer), 1958
- Lo Mal de la tèrra (The Land's Evil), 1958
- Roèrgue, si (Yes to RouergueRouergueRouergue is a former province of France, bounded on the north by Auvergne, on the south and southwest by Languedoc, on the east by Gévaudan and on the west by Quercy...
), 1968 - Òda a Sant Afrodisi (An Ode to Saint AphroditeAphroditeAphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.Her Roman equivalent is the goddess .Historically, her cult in Greece was imported from, or influenced by, the cult of Astarte in Phoenicia....
), 1968 - Lo Castèl des cans (The Castle of the Dogs), 1977
- Messa pels pòrcs (A Mass for the Pigs), 1970
- Los Negres, siam pas sols (Blacks, Let's Not Be Alone), 1972
- Lo Fuòc es al cementiri (The Cemetery's on Fire), 1974
- Misericòrdia (Mercy), 1986
- L'Escritura publica o pas (Letter-Writing or Not), 1988, a collection of poems written between 1972 and 1987
Prose
- Lo Poèta es una vaca (The Poet Is a Cow), 1967
- La Paciéncia (Patience), 1968
- Made in France (1970)
- Lo Trabalh de las mans (Handmade), 1977
- Lengadòc Roge (Red LanguedocLanguedocLanguedoc is a former province of France, now continued in the modern-day régions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées in the south of France, and whose capital city was Toulouse, now in Midi-Pyrénées. It had an area of approximately 42,700 km² .-Geographical Extent:The traditional...
), 1984
Essays
- Los Carbonièrs de La Sala (DecazevilleDecazevilleDecazeville is a commune in the Aveyron department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in southern France.The commune was created in the 19th century because of the Industrial Revolution and was named after the Duke of Decazes , the founder of the factory that created the town.-History:The town is built...
's Miners), 1975 - Las Cronicas de Viure (The Chronicles in Viure magazine), 1963–1974