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Individualism, Madness and Revolution in the Catalan Novel Under the 2nd Republic: Perot i l’Estel by Antoni Fuster Valldeperas

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This chapter explores the characteristics of the literature of writers who, when literary Catalan modernism had died out, used many of the features of the movement in their work. An analysis of the costumbrism-based novel Perot i l’Estel (1932),by Antoni Fuster Valldeperes, shows the return to the debate on madness, the expression of individual standpoints and the portrayal of a wide range of revolutionary ideals the main themes of which are Catalanism, universalism, republicanism and anarchism.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    At the end of the 20th century, the term “post-Modernisme” existed alongside “post-Modernity”.

  2. 2.

    In Plàcid Vidal’s memoirs, the dates are difficult to specify exactly, but he seems to be referring to the year 1925 when he says that they got back from Majorca after their honeymoon.

  3. 3.

    Vidal (1972: 191) confirms that in 1927 “he set up a shop in Barcelona that was suitable for holding exhibitions, well located.”

  4. 4.

    Vidal (1972: 287) explains that, on instructions of the mayor, he appointed him as a temporary municipal employee.

  5. 5.

    He wrote the article “Intellectuals and workers”, in which he argued that the intellectuals had played a fundamental role in opening up the party to workers but that, once this had been done, the workers should take the lead.

  6. 6.

    In his capacity as secretary, he promised to take the necessary steps for the bomb damage caused to the Centre de Lectura to be repaired. Fuster used Ràdio Barcelona to raise awareness of the Centre’s plight.

  7. 7.

    Vidal (1972: 31) mentions a clash after which they drifted apart. They stayed apart for some time largely because of Vidal’s suspicions.

  8. 8.

    The articles are “Alfonso Maseras”, in Prisma. Revista Internacional de Poesía, Paris–Barcelona, vol. II, 4 (August 1922), 220–223, and “El poeta Alfonso Maseras”, in Alfar, La Corunya, 36 (January 1924), 12–13.

  9. 9.

    Charles Baudelaire’s “Albatross” had a considerable influence on Catalan literature at the turn of the century and since then as a metaphor of the condition of the artist in society.

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This study is part of the research carried out by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili’s research group Identitat Nacional i de Gènere en la Literatura Catalana, and the Grup de Recerca Identitats en la Literatura Catalana (GRILC) (2017 SGR 599).

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  3. Jaume I University, Castellón de la Plana, Castellón, Spain

    Vicent Salvador

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Sunyer, M. (2019). Individualism, Madness and Revolution in the Catalan Novel Under the 2nd Republic: Perot i l’Estel by Antoni Fuster Valldeperas. In: Casanovas, P., Corretger, M., Salvador, V. (eds) The Rise of Catalan Identity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18144-4_13

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