These thirteen short stories (two with side-by-side English translation) bring to light a fascinating literature long repressed by the Franco regime in Spain. The writers are young, born in the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War (c. 1940). The authors were assisted by John Dagenais, now Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. Co-published with the North American Catalan Society.
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The concept of this pioneering work, designed for students and teachers of Catalan, could hardly be improved...an interesting bonus is the presence of statements by the authors as to their views of the conte as a literary genre.>>>> (Studies In Short Fiction )
The work provides an original contribution to the field, and is carried out with a clear educational objective, useful for introducing foreign readers to the works of those young, yet mature, short story writers working in Catalonia, the Baleares, andValencia.>>> (Zeitschrift Fur Romanische Philologie )
The work provides an original contribution to the field, and is carried out with a clear educational objective, useful for introducing foreign readers to the works of those young, yet mature, short story writers working in Catalonia, the Baleares, and Valencia. (Zeitschrift Fur Romanische Philologie )
The concept of this pioneering work, designed for students and teachers of Catalan, could hardly be improved...an interesting bonus is the presence of statements by the authors as to their views of the conte as a literary genre. (Studies In Short Fiction )
The work provides an original contribution to the field, and is carried out with a clear educational objective, useful for introducing foreign readers to the works of those young, yet mature, short story writers working in Catalonia, the Baleares, andValencia.>>> (Zeitschrift Fur Romanische Philologie )
The work provides an original contribution to the field, and is carried out with a clear educational objective, useful for introducing foreign readers to the works of those young, yet mature, short story writers working in Catalonia, the Baleares, and Valencia. (Zeitschrift Fur Romanische Philologie )
The concept of this pioneering work, designed for students and teachers of Catalan, could hardly be improved...an interesting bonus is the presence of statements by the authors as to their views of the conte as a literary genre. (Studies In Short Fiction )
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Albert Porqueras-Mayo is Professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Honorary President of the North American Catalan Society since 1978, he is the author of El prologo en el Renacimiento espanol and Temas y formas de la literatura espanola. Jaume Marti-Olivella is the Director of Cultural Activities for the North American Catalan Society. Carme Rey i Grangè teaches Catalan Literature in Stiges (Barcelona).
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Indispensable for foreign students of Catalan,
By bukhtan (Chicago, Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The New Catalan Short Story (Paperback)
This is the second edition of a collection originally published in 1980. Thirteen stories in Catalan are included, two with facing page English translations. All were originally published between 1970 and 1980, and are drawn from Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. In addition to their general introduction in English, the editors have added introductions in Catalan to each story, along with brief notes in English. There is also a general Catalan-English vocabulary which includes all but the most basic words. A bibliography of ancillary materials (all in Catalan) is appended; most of these works, unfortunately, will be unavailable to American students unless they have access to major university libraries or visit Iberia.
The stories are all, of course, in a language that must be considered "literary", but they are not so far removed from daily speech that reading them would not be of considerable utility to students who are interested in spoken Catalan. This excellent book is a great resource for any English-speaking learner, and in fact makes the language quite accessible even to those with little formal study background, if (like many if not most students of Catalan) they have previously developed a good working knowledge of standard Spanish. When this book was published, a reasonably democratic government was in place, and the sanctions against Catalan and other minority languages were no longer, so the future for this language seemed bright. In the meantime, however, the percentage of the population using Catalan as their preferred language has continued to drop, especially in Barcelona. This is apparently due to immigration of Spanish speakers and of other languages as well. It can hardly be expected that this little book will do much to reverse trends based upon economics and other factors, but for now it will be an aid for all of those who treasure every small language that survives in the face of the monster languages such as English, Spanish, Arabic and Mandarin Chinese.
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