Daybook 1918 : early fragments / J.V. Foix ; edited and translated by Lawrence Venuti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foix, J. V., author.

Contributor:

Venuti, Lawrence, editor, translator, writer of added commentary.

Foix, J. V.

Standardized Title:

Diari 1918. Selections. English

Language:

Catalan

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Daybook nineteen eighteen

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

Poems in the original Catalan and in English translation.

Summary:

""Daybook 1918: Early Fragments" presents a substantial selection from the work of the major Catalan poet, J.V. Foix (1893-1987). Deeply committed to the European avant-gardes, Foix enlisted their experimental practices in the cause of Catalan nationalism as Catalonia itself experimented with autonomous government before the advent of Franco's dictatorship in 1939. Foix was particularly attracted to the revolutionary energy of French surrealism as a means of releasing the poetic resources of the unconscious while invigorating the Catalan language and its literary traditions. Lawrence Venuti focuses on the diaristic prose poems, where Foix endows Catalan customs and geography with an oneiric quality and depicts his male persona in unsettling encounters with the femme fatale, Gertrudis. To immerse the reader in Foix's moment, Venuti gathers a range of work--poetry, prose fiction, and various forms of nonfiction--creating a multi-faceted context that evokes the heady cultural ferment of early twentieth-century Catalonia. And in translations that are at once fluid and resonant, Venuti plumbs the expressive capabilities of English. Making available many texts for the first time, "Daybook 1918: Early Fragments" establishes Foix as a key figure in international modernism and challenges the century of neglect that has greeted his writing in anglophone cultures"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Early fragments from the daybook

Diari 1918 (fragments) = Daybook 1918 (fragments)

"He malferit"

"i wounded"

"Aixequeu ben alts"

"Raise high"

"M'assegurava que eren"

"She assured me"

"Quants de tombs"

"How many times"

"Diuen que estas gelosa"

"They say you are jealous"

"Et vaig sorprendre"

"i caught you unawares"

"Les parets del court"

"The court walls"

"Que hagin aparedat"

"May doors and windows"

"En percebre de lluny"

"Upon perceiving my rival"

"Quan erem a la font"

"When we were standing together"

"A les sis de la tarda"

"At six in the afternoon"

"Les cases, de roure i de caoba"

"The houses of oak and mahogany"

La vila

The village

H. 50-11 h. 50

7:50-11:50

Placa Catalunya-Pedralbes

Pepa, la lletera

Pepa the milkmaid

Sense simbolisme

Without symbolism

Notes sobre la mar

Notes on the sea

"La sorpresa fou quan"

"The surprise occurred"

"Ben lligat el nas de carto"

"Wearing a grotesque pasteboard nose"

"La mar, aquell mati"

"The sea, that morning"

"De levita i copalta negre"

"Wearing black frock coats"

"En acabar-se el ball"

"As the ball comes to an end"

"De lluny tothom crida"

"From afar everyone shouts"

Notes del Diari

Notes from the Daybook

"No son cases"

"They are not houses"

"Perque m'he pintat la fac"

"Beause i painted my face"

"Hi ha cavalls per portals"

"There are horses by doors"

Ombres darrere els lilas

Shadows behind lilacs

"Mil ales rosa"

"A thousand pink wings"

"Fou diumenge passat"

"Last Sunday"

"El diaz i el vicente"

"Diaz and Vicente"

"Nois i noies"

"Boys and girls"

"Perque l'home"

"Because the man"

"Ni els peixos"

"The fish swimming"

"Feixos d'heura"

"Bundles of ivy"

"Palplantat a la porta"

"Stock-still at the door"

"Destenyits per la pluja"

"Faded by the rain"

"Tot just m'acabava"

"No sooner had my friend"

Retorn a la natura

Return to nature

"Per un filferro"

"Along a wire"

"Fugir, fugir"

"Flee, flee"

"L'ultim ocell"

"The last bird"

"Cap ma no em diu"

"No hand bids me"

"Per les obertures"

"Huge enameled amphoras"

"So jo que porto"

"It is i who carry"

"Es inutil que"

"In vain"

Vindre mes tard dema

I'll come later tomorrow

On anire tot sol

Where i shall go all alone

Omitted texts

Gertrudis

Christmas story

"Deserted paths, lifeless thoroughfares"

KRTU

Notes on El port de la selva

Introductions

Salvador Dali

Joan Miro

Artur Carbonell

Applications

Letter to a friend and colleague

Essays

Avant-gardism

Some considerations on current literature and art

Some reflections on one's own literature

Homeland

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-171).

Related Work:

Foix, J. V. Diari 1918. Selections. Catalan

ISBN:

9780810140653

0810140659

9780810140660

0810140667

OCLC:

1080427823