Longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation Daybook
1918: Early Fragments is the first substantial selection in English
from the prose poetry of the major Catalan writer J. V. Foix
(1893-1987). The core of Lawrence Venuti's edition is forty-five
prose poems from the beginning of Foix's career, supplemented by
additional poems in prose and verse, prose fictions, and essays
that immerse the reader in the heady cultural ferment of early
twentieth-century Catalonia. Deeply committed to the European
avant-gardes, Foix explored experimental poetics in the service of
Catalan nationalism as Catalonia itself carried out its notable
experiments with autonomous government on the eve of Franco's
dictatorship. Foix was particularly attracted to the revolutionary
energy of French surrealism, and he endows Catalan life and
landscapes with a dreamlike quality while staging a series of
unsettling encounters with the femme fatale Gertrudis. In
translations praised as both fluid and resonant, Venuti plumbs the
expressive capabilities of English to evoke the profound impact
that the Catalan texts had on their first readers. Daybook 1918:
Early Fragments establishes Foix as a key figure in international
modernism.
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