biography
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Foix, J(osep) V(icenç)
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pronunciation:
[fosh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1987)
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| biography:
| Catalan poet, born in Sarría, Barcelona, NE Spain. With Folguera and Salvat-Papasseit, he is considered to be one of the most significant avant-garde writers in Catalan. He used the Surrealist modes of Buñuel, Dalí, and Miró, as well as championing their cause. Gabriel Ferrater divided Foix's life and work into two parts: before the ‘public catastrophe of 1936’ and afterwards. A businessman and Catalan nationalist, he wrote Revolució catalanista (1934), a political statement contrasting with his poems, which often approach the condition of waking dreams, similar to some Daliesque paintings. With Josep Carbonell, he edited the magazine L'Amic de les Arts (1926–9). His first important collection was Sol, i de dol (1936, published 1947), followed by Les irreals omegues (1949) and On he deixat les claus (1953). Onze Nadals i un Cap d'Any (1960) contains poems written for Christmas and New Years' greetings. |
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