Institut Ramon LLull

 Pere Calders

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Pilar Lafuente
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Pere Calders

Pere Calders, born in Barcelona in 1912, grew up during a period of cultural and political exuberance in Catalonia. He studied Fine Art and worked as an illustrator and graphic designer, while also writing stories and articles. During the Civil War, he joined the Republican army as a cartographer. After their defeat, he went into exile in Mexico; twenty-three years later, in 1962, he returned to Barcelona, where he cemented his success as a writer.

 

ABOUT WORK

Primarily working in the short-story genre, Calders’s distant and ironic style—coupled with a sense of humor tinged with sadness—created a universe of his own that linked him to the worlds of Kafka, Pirandello and Ionesco. His was a universe of absurd events and dreamlike experiences, peopled with characters both funny and deeply symbolic.

AUTHOR'S RESOURCES

SELECTED WORKS

Fiction
Cròniques de la veritat oculta (Chronicles of a Hidden Truth). Editorial Selecta, 1955
La Glòria del doctor Larén (Dr. Laren’s Gloria). Edicions 62, 1936
L’ombra de l’atzavara (The Shadow of the Agave). Labutxaca, 1964
Ronda naval sota la boira (Naval Patrol in the Fog). La Magrana, 1966
Invasió subtil i altres contes (Subtle Invasion and Other Stories). Educaula, 1979

Author's Works in Translation

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