| VACU - Prologue to the first Catalan Edition | |
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By Francesc Torralba Roselló - Philosopher and secular theologian Translated by ANGEL MIROU If the task of writing a prologue is hard when it comes to an essay, it is even more so when the prologue must be the prelude to a book of poetry. It is not easy to put oneself in the shoes of the author and imagine the stream of thought and feelings which configure a work of poetry. The text is the exteriorization of an interior sphere which aims to make the reader complicit. The poet, rhythmically revealing the voice of his interior, projects to the exterior his deepest identity, shows us the essential core of his self. In that sense, the act of "poetizing" is an act of stripp... |
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| Queralt in the light of philosophy | |
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By Daniel Casas Llimós B.A. in Philosophy Translated by ANGEL MIROU) "...Manel Queralt, a philosopher in verse who wishes to put across to the largest number of readers possible an interpretation (tragically lived) of man and his reality, which will make them think and reconsider their "strange" lives, not to mention "alienated"; for Queralt writes to be a poet-philosopher and not just to express his experience." They likewise venerate a god, whose name is Manure, and which they possibly have devised in the likeness of the king; he is a crippled creat... |
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