Literary movement Modernisme Ex-spouse Clara Noble Books Visions i Cants, Enlla | Role Poet Name Joan Maragall | |
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Born 10 October 1860
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain ( 1860-10-10 ) Occupation Poet, translator, journalist Died December 20, 1911, Barcelona, Spain Children Jordi Maragall i Noble, Joan-Antoni Maragall i Noble Influenced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, Novalis Similar People Jacint Verdaguer, Carles Riba, Jose Pijoan, Narcis Oller, Enric Morera i Viura | ||
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Joan Maragall i Gorina ([ʒuˈam məɾəˈɣaʎ]) (10 October 1860 in Barcelona – 20 December 1911) was a Spanish Catalan poet, journalist and translator, the foremost member of the modernisme movement in literature. His manuscripts are preserved in the Joan Maragall Archive of Barcelona.
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- Life
- Work
- Poetic works
- Digitized works
- References
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 Clara Noble with whom he had 13 children. In 1904 he won all three prizes awarded by the Jocs Florals in Barcelona, and was proclaimed Mestre en Gai Saber. His private home in Sant Gervasi was bought by the Biblioteca de Catalunya and can be visited.
His grandson, Pasqual Maragall, would become mayor of Barcelona and then President of Catalonia.
Work
Maragall's poetry was based on themes drawn from human life and nature. Highly influenced by German-language authors such as Nietzsche, Novalis and Goethe, all of which he translated into Catalan, his poetry went through decadentist and vitalist periods. 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.
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