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Joan Oliver / Pere Quart

Claire Fontaine is a great follower of Pere Quart, one of the most important Catalan writers of the 20th century. She wants to talk about the poet and about metrics in poetry which are so important as metrics in internet.

Joan Oliver i Sallarès, who used as a poetry-writer the pseudonym Pere Quart, (1899-1986) is considered one of the most important writers in Catalonia, specially because of his rebelliousness and social commitment.

He was born in 1899, the member of an outstanding family of the industrial bourgeoisie of Sabadell. He was the fourth of eleven brothers; he was the only survivor. He took the pseudonym with which he would sign his poetic work: Pere Quart. He studied Law. In year 1919, he formed the Group of Sabadell with the novelist Francesc Trabal and the poet Armand Obiols. In this group the influence of vanguardism was combined with local humor.

More information: Joan Oliver (Catalan Version)

During the Civil War he engaged politically with the republican side. He was nominated president of the Association of Catalan Writers and leader of Generalitat's Ministry of Culture publications. Moreover he was co-founder and headleader of Institution of the Catalan Letters publications, and author of the Catalan popular army hymn's letter. All this means a definite break with his bourgeois past and the birth of a strong political, ethical and social commitment. 

In this context he created Oda a Barcelona and the play La fam. At the end of the war, the Republican Generalitat will order him the task of evacuating all the intellectuals. Finished the war will exile first in France, embark towards Buenos Aires and establish definitively in Santiago of Chile, where he will live for eight years. During the exile, he continued his task of intellectual compromised with his time and his country. He collaborated with Catalonia, edited in Buenos Aires, and directed Germanor, edited in Chile. He set up the collection The pine of the three branches along Xavier Benguerel.

More information: Lletra UOC (Catalan Version)

In 1948 Joan Oliver came back to Barcelona, where Franco's dictatorship was characterized by authoritarianism and repression. He was imprisoned for three months in the Model prison of Barcelona. Three years later he received the Prize of the French Republic President in the floral games of Paris, for the translation into Catalan of The Misanthrope by Molière. He translated and adapted works of several authors like Anton Chekhov. 

Pere Quart / Joan Oliver

In 1960 his more emblematic work appeared: Vacances Pagades. It is a skeptical work, sarcastic too, where a great appointment with the social and political reality of the country is shown. Oliver makes an acid crictisim to the capitalism, the consumer society and the Franco dictatorship. 

With the death of the dictator and democracy entry, he was especially displeased with the dominant politicians, denouncing the betrayal that meant the transition. In year 1982 he rejected the Cross of Saint George. He became an uncomfortable character for the politicians, who was necessary to corner. 

Nothing of all this, however, prevented him from being considered one of the five best Catalan poets of the 20th century. In 1986 he died in Barcelona and was buried in his natal city, Sabadell.

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Pere Quart composed couplets, sonnets, glosses, rooms and songs while respecting the standards set for metric creation -number of syllables and rhyme- and web analysts today, analyze visits -exclusive or recurring-, the length of connecting users or bounce rates and conversion. Pere Quart wanted to transmit feelings through poems. Analysts studying how to make certain information available to the largest number of people possible. 

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Avui en terres de França
i demà més lluny potser,
no em moriré d'enyorança
ans d'enyorança viuré.

Today in French lands

tomorrow further perhaps,

I won't die by yearning

because I live of yearning. 

Pere Quart