Building with Words. Writers, Literature and Identity in Catalonia (1859-2019)

Culture is a source, sometimes belligerent, of collective identity, and an archive of what each society has lived or imagined, a source and an archive in which writers have the power to name and explain. In the case of Catalan culture, authors such as Jacint Verdaguer, Joan Maragall, Salvador Espriu or Miquel Martí i Pol (considered by many "national poets") have written and ceded words that were then essential in establishing, maintain and reproduce the idea of ​​community. In return, they have gained an important public recognition.
 
Construir con palabras studies the key role of texts, authors, publishers, translators, critics, organizations, institutions, magazines and contests, of all agents of the literary system, in the configuration of contemporary Catalan culture.

A book of cultural history.