Catalan literature - Esperanto - Esperanto literature
Frederic Pujulà i Vallès (Palamós, 1877 - Bargemon, 1962) was a journalist, dramatist and a passionate Esperantist. He travelled through Europe and stayed for a long time in Paris. He was involved in Joventut (1900-1906), the best "modernisme" review of Catalonia. During the World War I (1914-1918), he fought with french army.
He wrote "Homes Artificials" which is the first short novel of SF written in catalan. She was originally published in year 1912, by Biblioteca Joventut, in Barcelona. Doctor Pericart wants to obtain a new society, unsocialized and perfect. Transformed in demigod, he creates a group of individualized androids, which will be the seeds of the new society.
Works
Catalan
- Theater
- El geni (1904)
- El boig (1907, second part of El geni)
- Dintre la gàbia (1906, with Emili Tintoré)
- La veu del poble i El poble de la veu (1910, with Lluís Via)
- Novels
- Titelles febles (1902)
- Creuant la plana morta (1903)
- El metge nou (1903)
- Homes artificials (1912), considered as the first SF novel in catalan, published again 1986 Edicions Pleniluni, ISBN 84-85752-22-8.
- Estudi Francesc Pi i Margall (1902), set of articles edited in Joventut.
- Translations into catalan :
- Més enllà de las forsas, of the norwegian Björnson (1904)
- Kaatje, theater of the belgian Paul Spaak (1914)
- novels of Georges Simenon
Esperanto
- Naivulo
- Karabandolo la plugisto
- Fiŝkaptisto kaj rigardanto
- La grafo erarinta (1908)
- Monologs
- La Rompantoj (1907)
- Senhejmulo
- La Pipamanto
- Theater
- Aŭtunaj ventoj (1909)
- Novelo (1908)
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