Ferrer BARTOMEU, writer month
During March, the Can Ventosa municipal library, in Ibiza, hosts an exhibition of the work of writer Bartomeu Ferrà and Juan, writer declared the month.
Bartholomew and Son Perello Ferrà, And Juan Miguel Ferrà (Palma 1885-1947) studied law (1905) and Philosophy (1909) at the University of Barcelona (UB). He established important relationships with the main protagonists of the Noucentism such as Josep Carner and with prominent politicians and intellectuals from Catalonia at the time such as Enric Prat de la Riba. He had an intense friendship with Maria-Antònia Salvà, despite ideological differences, of which a prolific epistolary is preserved.
It reached him the first literary success in the Floral Games of Barcelona 1904, in which Englantina wins with the poem “Schism”, that had been sent to the Games for Miquel Costa and Llobera without their knowledge. This success stimulated him and he began to project the literary magazinemidday (1906-1907), of which he was the director. Desde 1909, The Editorial Committee of the Works by Ramon Llull and prepared, together with mosén S. Galmes, The edition of theBook of Blanquerna (1914).
En el año 1911 He joined the optional body of archivists, librarians and
state archaeologists, and was assigned to Gijón, where he remained until 1913,
date on which he began to occupy a librarian position in the Library
University of Barcelona. He founded and directed the Student Residence of
Catalonia (1913-36) and collaborated in the Barcelona press (The Vou of Catalonia,
Magazine, From here to there, etc.). During these years, continued working on the
lullian works, He gave several conferences in Mallorca, created the League
of Friends of Art (1913), He collaborated in the Mallorcan press (The Almudaina, The last
Hour, The Mallorca Post Office, etc.) y, following the Catalan model of the
Ideal city, began a journalistic campaign from the weekly Sóller,
signing with the pseudonym Alanís de la Lluna, with the aim of building the
ideal city of Majorcans. They were the years of maximum identification with
heNoucentism Catalan. In this
context a new group of Mallorcan intellectuals was created, subsequently
known as Generation 1917, of which Ferrà was its leader.
They were young people, mostly educated at the University of Barcelona, but who,
unlike the generations that preceded them, They returned to Mallorca
joining island life. Ferrà was also a corresponding member of the
Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC).
His first book of poems “Yesterday's song”, (1917) was well received by critics, and success contributed, partly, because in a space relatively short time, the author published two new books of poems, “The Pink” (1919) y “The friendly muses” (1920). This The latter was a collection of translations of other poets such as Théophile Gautier, Verlaine, Carducci, Verhaeren, Jean Moreas, Leopards, Goethe, Dario, Maeterlinck or Mistral. en “half way” (1926), Ferrà decided to collect in a single volume the previous books, and expand it with some new compositions. This new collection of poems, plus the sonnets dedicated to the death of his mother, “Lovely Mother” (1943), and other poems collected posthumously, they are Ferrà's poetic legacy, picked up by his friend Joan Pons in the volume of Complete Poems ( 1962). Desde 1936 Ferrà resided in Majorca, where he directed the Public Library.
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