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Letter from the poet Joan Vinyoli to his wife, Teresa Sastre, from Germany, where he was on the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair

Date
1955
Archive
County Archive of the Selva
Document type
Textual
Reference code
CAT-ACSE-160-98-3813
Link to the online document
Description

The letter that Joan Vinyoli wrote to his wife Teresa Sastre from the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1955 is an intimate and cultural witness to a key moment in the internationalization of Catalan publishing. Vinyoli, representing the publishing house Labor, participates in one of the most important publishing fairs in the world, a fact that demonstrates the active presence of Catalan professionals in the European book circuits, even in an adverse political context such as that of the Franco regime. The document reflects the double dimension of Vinyoli: that of the sensitive poet and that of the cultural worker committed to the dissemination of knowledge. It is a clear example of how Catalan culture maintained links with Europe through literature and publishing.