Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:557

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX557

Authors:
Corretger, Montserrat, 1950-

Abstract:
OF DOCTORAL THESIS BY MONTSERRAT CORRETGER SÀEZTHE LIFE AND WORKS OF ALFONS MASERAS: A SPECIFIC STUDY OF HIS NARRATIVEThe thesis studies the biography and literary work of Alfons Maseras, a writer considered only superficially by contemporary criticism which has relegated him to the list of second rate modernist authors and which ignores information such as the date when he died or the fact that he arrived in Barcelona during his infancy and not as a young man, as has always been stated.The thesis studies the intellectual horizons of Alfons Maseras, who was one of the most effective disseminators of Catalan culture in Europe and who introduced and expanded foreign models in Catalonia in his role of literary correspondent, something which is essential for understanding Catalan intellectual circles between 1906 and 1939. It also establishes the writer's political creed and his role in the historic events of the first half of the 20th century. He was allied to the CNR (Catalan Republican Nationalist Centre) and its organ El Poble Català (The Catalan People) and in Paris in the 1920s he was editor of Le Courrier Catalan in the struggle against the dictatorship. During the 1930s he continued to live out his Catalan ideals and dedicated himself fully to literary creation and translation. During the final years of his life, during the Civil War and his brief exile, he acted as the voice of the public conscience, resulting from his many activities in defence of Catalan culture and republican institutions.Alfons Maseras had cultivated an interest in poetry and theatre in which he was less successful despite having published and staged some plays. In addition to his narrative corpus, which includes twelve novels, nine collections of short stories, eleven novellas, four books of v