Cities and the moral memory of their spaces

Authors

Keywords:

Josep Pla, Joan Fuster, Vicent Andrés Estellés, literatura catalana, postguerra española.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present the city as a palimpsest in which moral memory—a key idea in Josep Pla’s work—becomes a critical framework within which to think about the history of cities from an autobiographical point of view.

Author Biography

  • Antoni Martí Monterde, University of Barcelona
    Antoni Martí Monterde (1968) és doctor en Humanitats‑Literatura Comparada per la Universitat Pompeu Fabra i és professor de Teoria de la Literatura i Literatura Comparada a la Universitat de Barcelona. Ha estat investigador convidat a la Université Paris 8 (2008) i professor visitant a Stanford University (2014). Dirigeix el Grup de Recerca Literatura Comparada en l’Espai Intel·lectual Europeu i el Màster Barcelona‑Europa de la Universitat de Barcelona. A banda de diversos articles sobre Xavier de Maistre, Josep Pla, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Eugeni d’Ors, Walter Benjamin, Victor Klemperer, Guillermo de Torre, Joan Fuster o Claudio Magris, com a assagista ha publicat J. V. Foix o la solitud de l’escriptura (1998) i Poética del Café. Un espacio de la modernidad literaria europea (2007). Els seus darrers llibres són Un
    somni europeu. Història intel·lectual de la Literatura Comparada (2011) i El far de Løndstrup (2015), amb el qual va obtenir el premi Càtedra Josep Lluís Blasco d’assaig sobre Ètica i Ciutadania.

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Published

2019-01-08

Issue

Vol. 132 No. 2 (2018)

Section

SPECIAL ISSUE

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How to Cite

Martí Monterde, A. (2019) “Cities and the moral memory of their spaces”, Debats. Journal on culture, power and society, 132(2). Available at: https://revistadebats.net/article/view/1766 (Accessed: 4 November 2026).