Prudenci Bertrana

Portrait of Prudenci Bertrana

Prudenci Bertrana i Comte (Catalan pronunciation: [pɾuˈðɛnsi βəɾˈtɾanə]; Tordera, 19 January 1867 - Barcelona, 21 November 1941) was an important modernist writer in Catalan.

Biography[]

During his youth, he studied at Girona. Some years later, he went to Barcelona to study an industrial engineering course, and managed such magazines as L'Esquella de la Torratxa or La Campana de Gràcia. He worked as a journalist and also taught art there. Bertrana also collaborated with other newspapers such as , , and La Veu de Catalunya.

His style is certainly distinguished in relation to the fashions of the moment. He is quite known because of his novel Josafat (1906), the book with which began his literary production, and also for his storybook Proses bàrbares (Barbain prose, 1911). He published his first stories in 1903, and some of them have been considered of an excellent quality. His works (specially short stories) are based onto three principal aspects: the landscape, the peasants and the animals. Bertrana's novels, structured from a careful and detailed observation of the world, parts from life experience itself, seen by a human and a writer at a time. It is, however, with the trilogy Entre la terra i els núvols (Between the Earth and the Clouds), formed by L'hereu (The heir, 1931), El vagabund (The vagrant, 1933) i L'impenitent (The unrepentant, 1948), where and autobiographic purpose is mostly reflected, based on the personal frustration, the hardest part of what was the death of three of his sons. In 1933 he won the Fastenrath Award for his work El Comiat de Teresa.

He died in 1941 in Barcelona. His daughter Aurora's long memories (who dedicated her life to literature too), contain many references to his father.

References[]

• "Prudenci Bertrana". Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana. Retrieved 2019-12-31.

External links[]

• Prudenci Bertrana in LletrA, Catalan Literature Online (Open University of Catalonia) (in English, Spanish, and Catalan)
• Works by Prudenci Bertrana at Project Gutenberg

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