Prudenci Bertrana
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Prudenci Bertrana i Comte (pɾuˈðɛnsi βərˈtɾanə) (Tordera
, 1867 - Barcelona
, 1941) was an important modernist
writer in Catalan
. During his youth, he studied at Girona
; some years after he went to Barcelona to study an industrial engineering course, city in which he definitely instatled on 1911, where he managed known magazines as L'Esquella de la Torratxa or La Campana de Gràcia. He worked as a journalist and also taught art in there. Moreover, Bertrana collaborated with other literary rewiews such as El Poble Català, La Publicitat, Revista de Catalunya and La Veu de Catalunya are.
His style is certainly distinguished in relation to the fashions of the moment. He is quite known because of his novel Josafat (1906), the book with which began his literary production, and also for his storybook Proses bàrbares (Barbain prose, 1911). He published his first stories in 1903, and some of them have been considered of an excellent quality. His works (specially short stories) are based onto three principal aspects: the landscape, the peasants and the animals. Bertrana's novels, structured from a careful and detailed observation of the world, parts from life experience itself, seen by a human and a writer at a time. It's, however, with the trilogy Entre la terra i els núvols (Between the Earth and the Clouds), formed by L'hereu (The heir, 1931), El vagabund (The vagrant, 1933) i L'impenitent (The unrepentant, 1948), where and autobiographic purpose is mostly reflected, based on the personal frustration, the hardest part of what was the death of three of his sons. His daughter Aurora's long memories (who dedicated her life to literature too), contain many references to his father.
Tordera
Tordera is a town in the comarca of Maresme, province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, situated 64 km from Barcelona and 36 km from Girona on the edge of the Montnegre natural park...
, 1867 - Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, 1941) was an important modernist
Modernisme
Modernisme was a cultural movement associated with the search for Catalan national identity. It is often understood as an equivalent to a number of fin-de-siècle art movements, such as Art Nouveau, Jugendstil, Secessionism, and Liberty style, and was active from roughly 1888 to 1911 Modernisme ...
writer in Catalan
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
. During his youth, he studied at Girona
Girona
Girona is a city in the northeast of Catalonia, Spain at the confluence of the rivers Ter, Onyar, Galligants and Güell, with an official population of 96,236 in January 2009. It is the capital of the province of the same name and of the comarca of the Gironès...
; some years after he went to Barcelona to study an industrial engineering course, city in which he definitely instatled on 1911, where he managed known magazines as L'Esquella de la Torratxa or La Campana de Gràcia. He worked as a journalist and also taught art in there. Moreover, Bertrana collaborated with other literary rewiews such as El Poble Català, La Publicitat, Revista de Catalunya and La Veu de Catalunya are.
His style is certainly distinguished in relation to the fashions of the moment. He is quite known because of his novel Josafat (1906), the book with which began his literary production, and also for his storybook Proses bàrbares (Barbain prose, 1911). He published his first stories in 1903, and some of them have been considered of an excellent quality. His works (specially short stories) are based onto three principal aspects: the landscape, the peasants and the animals. Bertrana's novels, structured from a careful and detailed observation of the world, parts from life experience itself, seen by a human and a writer at a time. It's, however, with the trilogy Entre la terra i els núvols (Between the Earth and the Clouds), formed by L'hereu (The heir, 1931), El vagabund (The vagrant, 1933) i L'impenitent (The unrepentant, 1948), where and autobiographic purpose is mostly reflected, based on the personal frustration, the hardest part of what was the death of three of his sons. His daughter Aurora's long memories (who dedicated her life to literature too), contain many references to his father.