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Josep Palau i Fabre (born 21 April 1917 in Barcelona; died in the same city on 23 February 2008) was a Spanish Catalan poet and writer. He was a representative of Catalan literature during the post-World War period and a world expert on the work of Pablo Picasso.
Biography
The son of a painter and decorator, towards the end of the 1930s Fabre began his literary career by writing poetry. He studied arts at the University of Barcelona, and, during the 1950s, he was an active collaborator in various literary magazines such as Poesia and Ariel as well as being an editor at the La serena publishing house. A scholarship from the French government drew Fabre to Paris in 1945, where he lived until 1951. Afterward, he revoked his Spanish citizenship so that he could be classified as a political refugee.
In addition to poetry, he wrote plays, short stories and essays, including on Picasso. His fictional world draws on eroticism, showing strong dimensions other than those of the standard idea of reality and harshly criticising the idea of a self-satisfied, mediocre society. Fabre was also an active translator, translating into Catalan works by Antonin Artaud, Arthur Rimbaud, Honoré de Balzac, and the book Letters of a Portuguese Nun. His own books have been translated into several languages.
Fabre died at the Hospital de la Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona aged 90 years and was buried in the municipal cemetery in Caldes d'Estrac.
Work
= Poetry
=1942 : Balades amargues
1943 : L'aprenent del poeta
1945 : Imitació de Rosselló-Pòrcel
1946 : Càncer
1952 : Poemes de l'alquimista (reissued in 1977, 1979, 1991 and 2002, the last a bilingual Catalan/Spanish edition)
2001 : Les veus del ventríloc: poesia de teatre
= Novels
=1983 : Contes despullats
1984 : La tesi doctoral del diable
1988 : Amb noms de dona
1991 : Un Saló que camina
1993 : L'Alfa Romeo i Julieta i altres contes
1993 : Contes de capçalera
1996 : Les metamorfosis d'Ovídia i altres contes
= Plays
=1957 : Esquelet de Don Joan
1972 : Homenatge a Picasso
1977 : Teatre
1978 : La tràgica història de Miquel Kolhas
1986 : Avui Romeo i Julieta. El porter i el penalty
1991 : L'Alfa Romeo i Julieta, i altres contes, precedit per Aparició de Faust
2000 : La confessió o l'esca del pecat
2003 : Teatre de Don Joan
= Essays and literary criticism
=1943 : Pensaments
1961 : La tragèdia o el llenguatge de la llibertat
1962 : El mirall embruixat
1962 : Vides de Picasso
1962 : Vides de Picasso: assaig de biografia
1963 : Picasso
1964 : Doble assaig sobre Picasso
1966 : Picasso a Catalunya
1970 : Picasso per Picasso
1971 : L'extraordinària vida de Picasso
1971 : Picasso i els seus amics catalans
1976 : Antonin Artaud i la revolta del teatre modern
1976 : Quaderns de l'alquimista
1977 : Pare Picasso
1979 : El « Gernika » de Picasso
1981 : El secret de les Menines de Picasso
1981 : Picasso
1981 : Picasso vivent, 1881-1907
1981 : Picasso, Barcelona, Catalunya (with Montserrat Blanch, Alexandre Cirici and Isabel Coll)
1981 : Picasso a l'abast
1983 : Nous quaderns de l'alquimista
1990 : Picasso cubisme, 1907-1917
1991 : Quaderns inèdits de l'alquimista
1996 : Lorca-Picasso
1996 : Quaderns de vella i nova alquímia
1997 : Quaderns de l'alquimista
1997 : Estimat Picasso
1999 : Picasso dels ballets al drama, 1917-1926
2004 : Problemàtica de la tragèdia a Catalunya: obertura del curs acadèmic, 2003-2004
External links
Josep Palau i Fabre in the German National Library catalogue
"Josep Palau i Fabre". lletrA-UOC – Open University of Catalonia.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Pankaj Mishra
- Josep Palau i Fabre
- Palau (disambiguation)
- List of Catalan-language poets
- Pankaj Mishra
- Palau Foundation
- Joaquín Torres-García
- Josep Anton Codina Olivé
- Francoist Catalonia
- Enric Roig i Masriera
- List of recipients of the Creus de Sant Jordi
