El gest i la paraula

This volume includes different texts by Feliu Formosa - Catalan poet, translator, playwright, essayist, actor and stage director - written between 1969 and 2001, which revolve around the three major fields on which he has based his intellectual work intellectual and professional: theatre, poetry and translation. Reflections, always lucid, around the figures of Joan Vinyoli, Agustí Bartra, Thomas Mann, Georg Trakl, Rainer M. Rilke or Bertolt Brecht, among others, who have marked his extensive career; of plays such as L'auca del senyor Esteve or Ubú, rei, as well as newspaper articles, prologues to poetic anthologies and conferences: a collection of essayistic texts that reveals the multifaceted nature of Formosa.