Caterina Albert was born in the Empordà, in northern Catalonia, into a family of landowners. Self-taught, she spent almost her entire life in her hometown, cultivating an image as a simple “hobbyist.” Due to her interest in exploring problematic moral issues, which were considered improper for a woman in her day, she adopted the male pseudonym “Víctor Català” to allow herself more freedom when writing.
Heir(ess) to the naturalist legacy of authors such as Ibsen and Zola, and with a dense literary style laden with tension, the stories and novels of Víctor Català explore human brutality: violence, irrepressible desires, domination, female subordination. And these facts are often shrouded in symbolic perspectives of reality, making Català’s work a masterful reflection on evil, weakness, and fatality.
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