Francesc Pujols

Francesc Pujols i Morgades (* 1882 in Barcelona, † 1962 in Martorell ) was a Catalan writer and philosopher.

Career

During his university studies, he began, influenced by the work of Jacint Verdaguer and Joan Maragall to write verses. In 1902 he took part in the literary competition of the Joes Florals in Barcelona, where he led the Natural flower with his poem Idil · li (, Idyll ') won. In 1904 he published El llibre que les conté poesies de Francesc Pujols (, The book, which contains the poems of Francesc Pujols '), with an introduction by Joan Maragall, of a representative of the " living word " saw in Pujols.

In the same year he held his first lecture in Ateneu Barcelonès about the painter Marian Pidelaserra. This was the beginning of his career as an art critic, who later in his book Recull de crítica artística ( collection of art criticism ) ( 1921) was summarized. He distinguished himself as one of the first defenders of the then controversial architect Antoni Gaudí, which he dedicated his book La Visio artística i religiosa d'en Gaudí (, The artistic and religious vision of Gaudi ') ( 1927), translated into French by the painter Salvador Dalí and published in Lausanne in 1970.

In 1906 he published, under the pseudonym " Augusto de Altozanos ", his only novel, El Nuevo Pascual o la Prostitución (, The New Pascual or Prostitution '), a humorous work, which is written in a directly translated from Catalan Spanish is. He traveled to Madrid, where he deepened his studies as a painter and philosopher, and learned the politician Francesc Cambó know. 1908, back in Barcelona, ​​he frequented the clique by Ateneu Barcelonès, where from 1924 he occupied the position of secretary, while Pompeu Fabra was chairman. He was involved in the founding of the group Les Arts i els Artistes ( Art and Artists ), and the weekly magazine Papitu, which he later headed. As a playwright, he published El llibre de Job (, The Book of Job ' ) ( 1922), in pitarresker verse, and the tragedy Medea (1923).

In 1918, Francesc Pujols published the Concepte General de la Catalana Ciència (, General concept of Catalan Studies' ), in which he puts forward the existence of a Catalan philosophical direction, which begins with Ramon Llull and will be continued by Ramon Sibiuda. This work contains his famous prophecy, according to which the Catalans extraordinary beings are due to the fact to be children of the world the truth. In subsequent years he wrote more philosophical works, such as L' Evolució i els principis immutables (, Evolution and the immutable principles ') ( 1921) or Hiparxiologi o Ritual de la Catalana religio (, Hiparxiologi or ritual of the Catalan religion ') ( 1937).

Francesc Pujols built a philosophical system, initially under the name Sumpèctica o Ciència del Concret (, Sumpectica or science of the concrete '), later Hiparxiologia o Ciència de l' Existencia (, Hiparxiologia or science of existence '), and at the end Pantologia o Ciència del Tot (, Pantologia or science of the whole '). In 1931, the writer Josep Pla devoted his reasoning, a book entitled El sistema de Francesc Pujols. Manual d' Hiparxiologia (, The system of Prancesc Pujols. Handbook of Hiparxiologia ').

In 1926 he published in two volumes in the Historia de l' hegemonic Catalana de la política Espanyola (, history of the Catalan hegemony in Spanish politics '). After he had settled in Martorell, he wrote several works of a political nature, such as La Solucio Cambó ('The solution Cambó ') ( 1931) or El problema peninsular (, The problem of the Peninsula ') ( 1935). At the end of the Spanish Civil War he went into exile in Prada de Conflent as a guest of Pau Casals (1939 ), and later moved into the Residence of intellectuels Catalans from Montpellier, where he met the writer and scientist Alexandre Deulofeu and most young intellectuals, such as the art critic Alexandre Cirici Pellicer and the politicians Heribert Barrera, gave lectures.

In 1942 he returned to Catalonia and was interned in prison model of Barcelona, ​​where he spent a month. From 1949 until his death, he wrote for magazines such as Destino.