Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:1743

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1743

Authors:
Martí Font, Jordi

Abstract:
This thesis examines the work of Josep Llunas i Pujals, an anarchist and Catalan nationalist poet, narrator, journalist, and a literature and anarchist theorist whose work still remains completely unknown. This dissertation presents an updated edition of the study of Llunas’ complete oeuvre and of his publication “La Tramontana”. By examining his life works, this thesis confirms the existence of a XIX century Catalan working-class literature which is linked to an aesthetic literature movement called “workerist literature” created theoretically by Llunas. These literary productions meet the characteristics of the European anarchist aesthetic of those times in conjunction with the Catalan popular literature as a means to reaching the working-class anarchist target audience. Josep LLunas, not succeeding in his intention to engage his contemporary intelligentsia to the development of a workerist aesthetic movement, develops an autonomous strategy. He thereafter organized socialist events and spread his ideas through publications, narrations and poems that were supported by theoretical and journalists texts with more profound ideological content. The poems he wrote resulting from this approach can be classified into two types, entertainment and workerist poetry. In the latter, content takes precedence over form and has the doctrinal aim of both confronting the bourgeoisie and constructing a sense of social class to entice the working class go towards a social revolution.