La proposta literària de Vicenç Riera Llorca: anàlisi de la seva obra novel·lística (1946-1991)

Identificador:  TDX:3666

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX3666

Autors:  Ventura Pedrol, Albert

Resum:
This thesis examines the figure of Vicenç Riera Llorca (Barcelona, 1903 – Pineda de Mar, 1991) from two interrelated perspectives, namely his biography and his production of novels, in order to draw up a map of the Catalan reality between 1931–1936 and 1939–1962. Key political events from this first period are narrated, including the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931, the Events of 6 October in 1934 and the labour disputes seen in the counter-Republican periods of the Bienni Negre [Two Black Years]. For the second stage, the focus is shifted onto Catalan exiles in France, the Dominican Republic and Mexico. In his novels, Riera Llorca reflects the environments he experienced first-hand in a Republican Barcelona and in various periods of exile that lasted until 1969, the year he returned to Catalonia permanently. His novels, of a realist aesthetic, come together and intertwine through a corpus of recurring characters, written to express the liveliness and variety of society at certain times and in tangible spaces that play host to real historical events that shaped the political and social course of Catalan history. The unpublished written and oral sources used for this thesis have allowed a bridge to be built between reality and fiction and provided an insight into the essays and intellectual work of this Barcelona-native writer and journalist.