Joan Puig i Ferreter: director literari d'Edicions Proa a l'exili (1948-1956)

Identifier:  TDX:3086

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX3086

Authors:  Teixell Puig, Oriol

Abstract:
This thesis examines the role of Joan Puig i Ferreter (1882-1956) as the literary director of Edicions Proa in exile. The study, which is structured in two parts, analyses the period from 1948 to 1956, that is, from the agreement to resume the publishing in France during the Republican diaspora to the year of Puig’s death. The first part is a panoramic study of the continuation of the company’s activity in Perpignan and Puig’s work as a writer and of the editor and founder of Proa, Josep Queralt i Clapés (1896-1965). It examines the reasons behind the decision to resume publishing and the role that Puig played in this activity as an author, patron and literary director. The second part reveals unpublished correspondence between Puig and several important literary figures (principally Josep Carner, Domènec Guansé and Xavier Benguerel) in the exercise of his role at Edicions Proa. More than one hundred letters from the company’s literary director are presented, in two groups: the first, and largest, contains correspondence exchanged with the authors involved in the renewal of editorial activity, while the second documents proposals for collaboration that did not come to fruition.