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The article has two parts. The first part is a comprehensive compilation of literary works in history about old age with the aim of examining how it has been considered in the European literary tradition and establishing parallelisms and differences with Reflexions de la vellesa. The second part focuses on Anna Murià’s posthumous diary, an intimate reflection on old age through her own experience and perspective, which makes it a unique sample.

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The objective of this article is to follow Anna Murià’s publicist trajectory in the period between 1936, the year in which she joins Diari de Barcelona and in 1939, when she started the path of exile towards France. We want to confirm the existence of an important ideological and political production during these years in the main media of that time. The study of this period, the most unknown of the author, provides new data and is interesting given the significant change that the outbreak of war and the subsequent exile caused in the life of the author, noticeable both from the ideological and personal point of view, which clearly affected her work. 

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In the present article the author studies the importance of irony in Llorenç Villalonga’s work using as a touchstone the novel «Flo la Vigne». In the first place he analyzes the conception of irony that the writer has: a tool for approaching the world and a virtue that characterizes the person or the civilization that possesses it. Secondly, he examines the practice of irony in the aforesaid novel: verbal irony (antiphrasis, paradox, «reductio ad absurdum»...) and the narratologic irony in a wide sense, including the paratextual and the intertextual one. Special attention is paid to the conception of transmitter of information, which has diverse voices and narrative levels. Finally, it relates Villalonga’s irony to modern irony.