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A Conversation with Francesc Parcerisas

2009; University of Oklahoma; Linguagem: Inglês

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Lawrence Venuti,

Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism

Beat Generation and the youth counterculture. For us, the first generation born after the Spanish Civil War, it was an assertion of freedom. My poems were inspired by the Catalan Salvador Espriu and the Galician Celso Emilio Ferreiro but also by Pavese, Neruda, Hikmet. In the 1970s I felt a need to connect those interests with an avant-garde lit erary experience. I remember very clearly the book Renga by Octavio Paz, Jacques Roubaud, Edoar do Sanguineti, and Charles Tomlinson, which I bought in Mexico in the summer of 1972. There I found some of the writing I had been trying to achieve. The result was my book Latituds dels cavalls (1974; Horse latitudes). Interestingly, this experimentalism was not rooted in the contem porary French polemic about textuality, at once post-Mallarmean and academic, but rather in the youth culture of the sixties (the peace movement, Orientalism, music, sex, drugs). I had traveled with my generation from the Beatles to the Doors.