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HOTEL PARIS Vicent Andrés Estellés

Edition, Foreword and Translation by Dominic Keown

©2024 Monographs 74 Pages

Summary

Vicent Andrés Estellés (1924-1993) was one of the finest poets working anywhere in Iberia during the last century. In lyrical terms, his voice resonates with the blunt yet concentrated mastery of his fellow Valencian, Ausiàs March (1400-1459), the patriach of the modern Catalan tradition. The desperate edge to his creative diction may also be explained, however, by his unfailing censure of the totalitarian repression of General Franco’s dictatorship. Hotel Paris takes the microcosm of a meublé or bordello to expose the hardship of the life of ordinary people in the depth of the dictatorship. The account is especially sympathetic to the female condition. With their nation in defeat and their menfolk imprisoned or in exile, wives and mothers of Catalonia were obliged to toil at a variety of jobs – including prostitution – in order to put food on the table for their families. Hotel Paris is a painful but compelling collection and offers the reader creative commitment at its most basic yet inventive.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • This eBook can be cited
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Bibliography

Acknowledgements

The present edition has been made possible by the generous collaboration and permission of the Estellés family in Burjassot, the Grup Enciclopèdia from Barcelona, John Benjamins of Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Peter Lang of Berlin, Bruxelles, Channai, Laussane and New York and Vicent Martines, director of ISIC-IVITRA, at the University of Alacant [UA]/ Seu Universitària de la Nucia (UA).

Thanks are also due to the much missed Robin Warner, for his revision of the translation, Bryan Cameron, for his comments on the Introduction, and Irene Mira and Jordi Oviedo for their help and cooperation.

Details

Pages
74
Publication Year
2024
ISBN (PDF)
9783631923603
ISBN (ePUB)
9783631923610
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631923627
DOI
10.3726/b22119
Language
English
Publication date
2024 (October)
Keywords
Poetry Catalan Poetry Vicent Andres Estelles Spanish Poetry Art
Published
Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, Oxford, 2024. 74 pp.
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