Joan Salvat-Papasseit: Der Mythos des Alltäglichen

Abstract

The article starts with the phenomenon of the great popularity of the great Catalan avant-garde poet Joan Salvat-Papasseit, even to this day, and particularly the important representation of his work in the songs of the songwriters of the Nova Cançó and tries to investigate the possible causes of this great success of the poet, even outside of literary circles. In a brief biographical sketch, the author is presented as determined by two almost contradictory factors: on the one hand, because of his spirit of revolt, which, after a phase of militancy in a political party, led him to the most progressive literary avant-garde of his time, and, on the other, his great love for simple, human, everyday things that, as his illness worsens, become the fetishes of a normal, assured life that has always been withhold from him. The article argues that the dialectical and fertile conflict between the first more intellectual factor and the second more human and popular one is the main reason for the great success of Salvat-Papasseit's work.