Abstract

Through a critical examination of the Valencian literary circles at the end of the nineteenth century (during the Renaixença), the author situates the decisive role Carles Salvador played in the renovation of literary form and content, especially in the temporal option of the Avant-garde, in poetry and theatre.

Abstract

Meseguer situates Carles Salvador within the literary trends of his contemporaries. He deals with Salvador's implicit and explicit ideological influences, focusing on the poetics of various texts: El jazz, el maquinisme i la poesia pura (1928), Colps d'escut i de sageta (1929), Significado de Avantguardisme, his declaration in La poesia valenciana en 1930, and his unpublished paper El meu concepte de la poesia.

Abstract

Carles Salvador and his generation greatly contribute to the modernization and standardization of Catalan literature in the Valencian Country at the beginning of the twentieth century. The reasons and circumstances are analyzed by Balaguer, who concludes that they were often based on ambitions which would not come to fruition at the level they aimed for.