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Valencian Folktales - Enric Valor (Hardcover)
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Valencian Folktales - Enric Valor (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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Enric Valor is one of the most important Valencian authors of the
20th century. This selection of his highly popular rondalles (folk
tales) will for the first time introduce his work to an
English-speaking audience. At a time when Catalan was under threat
from the cultural bulldozer of the Franco regime, which condemned
the use of anything but Castilian Spanish in public communication,
Valor went to great lengths to disseminate knowledge of the
language, through writing grammars and linguistic studies, as well
as teaching it to fellow inmates when he was imprisoned by the
regime for his cultural activities. These tales, collected over a
number of years in small villages in the province of Alacant, were
a significant part of his ongoing efforts to safeguard the
Valencian language and the culture and history of the region. The
Rondalles Valencianes have been compared to Italo Calvino's Italian
Folk Tales and Henri Pourrat's Treasury of French Folk Tales. Like
them, Valor aimed in rewriting the oral material to establish a
common national body of folk narratives and to make the stories
more appealing to Valencian readers, young and old alike. The
critical Introduction provides an outline of the author's life and
an overview of his work as novelist, grammarian and folklorist, as
well as an assessment of the tales which identifies their place
within the broader European folklore tradition.
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