L’evolució de les bèsties. A propòsit del Bestiari de Pere Quart i les Histoires naturelles de Jules Renard

Abstract

This paper has two aims: on the one hand, to compare Joan Oliver’s Bestiari with works such as Bestiaire ou cortège d’Orphée by Guillaume Apollinaire (1911), “Bestiario” by Ramón del Valle-Inclán (in La Pipa de Kif, 1919), The animaux et leurs hommes. The hommes et leurs animaux by Paul Éluard (1920) and, above all, Histoires naturelles by Jules Renard (1896), in search of possible influences and coincidences. The other aim is to classify and analyze the poems in order to clarify the intention with which Oliver wrote the Bestiari and to relate it to the didactic and moral purpose of medieval Bestiaries and ancient Fables.

Keywords

• joan oliver
• jules renard
• bestiaries
• comparative literature
• poetry