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Title: Salvador Espriu, els anys d'aprenentatge: 1929-1943.(Brief Article)
Author: Albert M. Forcadas
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1995
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v69Issue: n1Page: p120(1)

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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From the supplier: Philip Polack's translation of 'Prima historia d'Esther' by the Catalan author Salvador Espriu is discussed. J.C. Catford's categories of linguistic and cultural translation are applied.

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Title: From linguistic monument to social memory: translation strategies in Philip Polack's version of Espriu's 'Primera historia d'Esther.'(Salvador Espriu)(Critical Essay)
Author: D. Gareth Walters
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume: 97Issue: 4Page: 863-876

Article Type: Critical Essay

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Salvador Espriu i Castelló (July 10, 1913 February 22, 1985) was a Spanish Catalan poet writing in the Catalan language. Espriu was born in Santa Coloma de Farners, Catalonia. He was the son of an attorney. His childhood was divided between his home town, Barcelona, and Arenys de Mar, a village on the Maresme coast. At the age of sixteen, he published his first book, Israel, written in the Spanish language. In 1930 he entered the University of Barcelona, where he studied law and ancient history. While traveling (1933) to Egypt, Greece and Palestine, he became acquainted with the countries that originated the great classical myths, and which would be so influential in his work. During the Spanish civil war he was mobilised and served in military accounting. Translated into several languages, Espriu's work has obtained international recognition, most notably the Montaigne prize (1971). He was also given the Award of Honour of Catalan Letters (1972), the Ignasi Iglesias prize (1980), the City of Barcelona Prize (1982) and the Gold Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya (1982). He was awarded honorary doctor's degrees by the universities of Toulouse and Barcelona. He died in Barcelona in 1985, and was buried in the Arenys de Mar cemetery, which gives name to his poem Cementiri de Sinera. In 1931 he published El doctor Rip, and the following year, Laia, novels that move away from the then-fashionable theoretical formulas of the aesthetics of the Catalan Noucentisme movement. The publication of Aspectes (1934), Ariadna al laberint grotesc(1935) and Miratge a Citera (1935), established him as the most original narrator of his generation. In these books, Espriu's prose alternately shifts from grotesque distortion to an aestheticising... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3139186 ... Read more