Jaume Vallcorba Plana

Jaume (or Santiago) Vallcorba Plana (* 1949 in Tarragona ) is a Spanish philologist, editor and publisher.

Life

He studied philosophy and philology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and completed his doctorate at the University of Barcelona with a thesis on " Josep Maria Junoy and the early European avant-garde ." Until 2004 was Jaume Vallcorba Professor of Literature at the University of Bordeaux, Lleida, and at the University of Barcelona and the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona).

He belongs to the Royal Academy of Doctors of Catalonia with focus in the areas of aesthetics, Medieval literature and avant-garde. In 1979 he founded the publishing Quaderns Crema and 1999 Acantilado, which he headed as publisher since its inception. His chief merit as a researcher is the new way that he could give with regard to the literary avant-garde in the early 20th century. As a publisher, he has made ​​known to the outstanding generation of contemporary Catalan writers, among them Quim Monzo, Sergi Pàmies and Empar Moliner. In his Spanish catalog you will encounter classics of the past - among other Chateaubriand, James Boswell, Montaigne - whom he has helped in the form of new editions to the rediscovery, but also European authors such as Fernando Pessoa, Imre Kertész, Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth. He has made ​​available to contemporary Eastern European as well as new Spanish -language writers of the Spanish readers.

He has published studies on the aesthetics and literature. The writer JV Foix has personally entrusted him with the publication of his poetic oeuvre. The poems Junoys he has published.

Selected Works

Essays

  • De la primavera al Paraíso ( Acantilado, 2013)
  • JM Junoy, Obra poetica (density Generic factory ), 1984. Reprint, Acantilado, 2010
  • Pintors i poetes cubistes i Futuristes: una teoría de la primera avantguarda ( Cubist and Futurist painters and poets: a theory of the first avant-garde ), 1986
  • JV Foix, edición de su poesía ( publication of his poems ), 1995
  • Las Vanguardias europeas: cubismo, futurismo y nunismo ( The European avant-garde movements: Cubism, Futurism and Nunismus ), 1995
  • Lectura de la Chanson de Roland. Con presentación de Martín de Riquier ( reading Song of Roland. Introduced by Martín de Riquier ), 1986 edition, Acantilado, 2010
  • Noucentisme, mediterranisme i classicisme. Apunts by a la història d' una Estetica ( noucentisme, Mediterranisme and classicism. Notes on the History of Aesthetics ), 1995
  • JV Foix, investigador de poesia (JV Foix, poetics researchers ), 2002
  • Album Manolo Hugue (s colaboración con Artur Ramon ) (Album Manolo Hugue in collaboration with Artur Ramon ), 2005
  • Son nou de flors els rams li renc, 2005

Awards

  • Gold Medal of FAD ( Promotion of Art and Design ), 2001
  • National prize for the best editorial work, 2002
  • Golden Medal for the recognition of cultural merits of the city of Barcelona, ​​2004
  • Big Order for recognition of cultural merit awarded by the Republic of Poland, 2004
  • Price for the recognition of publishing merits of the International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico, 2010

Bibliography

  • Por orden alfabético. Escritores, Editores, amigos ( Alphabetical order: writer, publisher, friends), Jorge Herralde (Barcelona, ​​Anagrama, 2006)
  • Entre Paréntesis: ensayos, artículos y Discursos (in brackets: essays, articles and lectures ), Roberto Bolaño (Barcelona, ​​Anagrama, 2004)
  • Marilyn McCully, noucentisme: Picasso, Junoy and the classicism of Barcelona, edited by Ulrich Weisner, Picasso's classicism, Stuttgart, Cantz, 1988, Pages 43-51
  • Aurelio González, review of his Lectura de la Chanson de Roland ( Song of Roland reading ) Medievalia, No. 4, 1989, page 6
  • Robert S. Lubar, Cubism, Classicism and Ideology: The 1912 Exposició d'art cubista in Barcelona and French Cubist Criticism ( exhibition of cubist art and French Cubist Criticism ), Elizabeth Cowling and Jennifer Mundy, On Classic Ground, London, Tate Gallery, 1990, pp. 309-324. Based on the work of JM Junoy, Obra poética (density Generic factory )
  • Friedrich Wolf List, review of his Lectura de la Chanson de Roland ( Song of Roland reading ), Journal of Romance Philology, No. 108 ( Issue 3/ 4), 1992, pp. 348-351
  • Quinze ans de l' édition de Barcelone ( Fifteen years of the edition in Barcelona). Doctoral thesis on his work as a publisher. December 9, 1995 had read in the University of Grenoble by Professor Edmond Raillard under the direction of Prof. Michel Moner
  • Arthur Terry, review of his work noucentisme, Mediterraneisme i Classicisme: apunts by a la història d' una Estetica ( noucentisme, Mediterranisme classicism and notes on the history of aesthetics. ), Journal of Hispanic Studies, 3 ( 1994-1995). pages 488-490
  • Juan Manuel Bonet, Diccionario de las Vanguardias en España 1907-1936 ( Dictionary of the avant-garde in Spain from 1907 to 1936 ), Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1995, a variety of information
  • Review of his noucentisme, Mediterraneisme i Classicisme: apunts by a la història d' una Estetica ( noucentisme, Mediterranisme classicism and notes on the history of aesthetics. ) By Neus Torres, in Revista de Catalunya, No. 107, May 1996, pages 126 -. 127
  • Review of his noucentisme, Mediterraneisme i Classicisme: apunts by a la història d' una Estetica ( noucentisme, Mediterranisme classicism and notes on the history of aesthetics. ) Of Nile Santiáñez - Tió, in España Contemporánea, Volume IX, No. 2, Fall 1996, pages 114-117
  • Review of his noucentisme, Mediterraneisme i Classicisme: apunts by a la història d' una Estetica ( noucentisme, Mediterranisme classicism and notes on the history of aesthetics. ) By Joan Ramon Resina, Hispanic Review, Summer 1996
  • Review of his editions of the work Darrer comunicat i Tocant a mà, by JV Foix, written by Arthur Terry, in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, LXXIII (1996 ), page 455
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