by Víctor Català · Edicions 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788429756050
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Quincalla is a work by Víctor Català that compiles a thousand adages to learn vocabulary. This book, revised and glossed by Joaquim Armengol, and with a prologue by Lluís Albert, presents a collection of adages written by the author during her sleepless nights, with the aim of preserving genuine Catalan words that are in danger of extinction. The work celebrates the richness of Víctor Català's prose and allows readers to rediscover her literary legacy.
Caterina Albert i Paradís, better known by her pen name Víctor Català, was a Catalan writer in Catalan and Spanish who participated in the Modernisme movement and was the author of one of the signature works of the genre, Solitud (Solitude) (1905). Her literary skill was first recognized in 1898, when she received the Jocs Florals prize; soon thereafter, she began using the pseudonym Victor Català, taking it from the protagonist of a novel she never finished. Despite her success as a dramatist and her forays into poetry, she is best known for her work in narrative literature, with the force of her style and the richness of her diction being especially noted. She died in her hometown of l’Escala, Catalonia, in 1966 and is interred in the Cementiri Vell de l’Escala.
