Flowering Broom

Roig i Raventós, Josep, 1883-1966Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 193K words
Chapters: 20

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Argelaga florida by Josep Roig i RaventósAuthor: Roig i Raventós, Josep, 1883-1966,Language: Catalan, Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Release Date: Jul 2, 2006

Editor's review

This is a work of Catalan literature by Josep Roig i Raventós, an author active in the first half of the twentieth century. Written in Catalan and belonging to the Romance-language literary tradition, it offers some reference value for the study of Catalan regional literature and for understanding the literary landscape of the Iberian Peninsula in the early twentieth century. The free electronic edition from Project Gutenberg allows this work to cross linguistic and geographic boundaries and reach a wider readership. It should be noted that the original text is in Catalan, not a Chinese translation, and readers need the corresponding language ability. Its value lies more in literary-historical and linguistic-cultural terms than in popular entertainment reading. It is suitable as supplementary material for researchers of Catalan literature, or for readers learning Catalan who wish to engage with literary works in the original. Readers are advised to combine the author's life and historical context with the text in order to understand the regional character of its literary expression.

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First learn about the life of Josep Roig i Raventós and the background of the Catalan literary revival, then approach the text.
Read chapter by chapter with a Catalan dictionary or bilingual tools, noting unfamiliar words and regional expressions.
Read in comparison with works by Catalan writers of the same period to observe shared themes and stylistic differences.
After reading, consult relevant literary histories to place the work within the context of early twentieth-century Spanish literature.

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Is this book a Chinese translation?

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Is this book suitable for understanding Spanish literature?

It can serve as supplementary material for understanding Catalan regional literature. It belongs to the Romance-language literary tradition, but it is not a general introductory reader for Spanish literature. It is best read alongside literary-historical overviews and other representative works.

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About the author

Roig i Raventós, Josep, 1883-1966 Author · Spanish · 1883–1966

Josep Roig i Raventós (1883–1966) was a Catalan writer and journalist from Spain who wrote fiction and plays and took part in the local cultural revival movement. Only a small number of his works are known; two are held in this collection, Ànimes atuïdes and Argelaga florida. Public information about his life is limited, so biographical details remain difficult to verify. Judging from his surviving works and his known role, however, his literary work was closely tied to the twentieth-century revival of Catalan-language culture: he wrote both fiction and drama, drew on local life and the inner lives of ordinary people, and gave his language a regional flavor, all in the service of using literature to awaken cultural identity. For today's readers he is an author worth noting when tracing the outlines of Catalan regional literature.