Me he cruzado con un hombre que pasaba

Joan Salvat-Papasseit (1894-1924) is one of the most important poets in Catalan literature. Of humble origin and mostly self-taught training, he began his literary and vital apprenticeship in the unrepeatable Barcelona of the turn of the century, a creative, enterprising and luminous city where both the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, even though they were opposing classes, contributed to the modernization of their environment. social. An ideological and poetic revolutionary author and a privileged reader of, among others, Apollinaire, Cocteau, Tzara and Marinetti, but also of Whitman and Poe, he left for posterity an unusual, risky and nuanced work, in which the simple becomes exceptional.