Albert Savine i la poesia catalana de la Renaixença

Abstract

Albert Savine was a key figure in the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century for the relations of Catalan writers in France. Through his different facets as critic, translator and editor, which he exercised throughout his life, he made Catalan literature known in France, and his activity, considered as a whole, is an important example of cultural transfer. The article reviews the figure of Albert Savine as a critic, translator and editor of Catalan literature. Finally, the reception of the study on the revival of Catalan poetry, published by Savine in the preface of his French prose translation of Jacint Verdaguer’s L'Atlàntida (1884), is analysed.

Keywords

• Catalan literature
• Renaixença
• history of translations
• cultural transfer
• hispanism
• history of publishing houses