ATLANTIS
by Jacint Verdaguer
tr. Ronald Puppo
Atlantis is a majestic, epic poem and a lasting jewel of Catalan literary tradition. With a colossal architecture and a descriptive power that creates memorable passages of prodigious beauty - the vision of the garden of the Hesperides and the dream of Queen Isabel are just some examples - this poem was the winner of the Jocs Florals in 1877, the forging work of the modern Catalan literary language, and earned Verdaguer literary recognition in and outside of Catalonia. Today, it remains an essential book in the personal library of every good reader.
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“Have you ever fallen in love?”
“No,” Mundeta said.
“If you only knew what it meant...”
“What?”
“Like a curious feeling in your stomach.”
“Like a stomachache?” she asked, startled.
“No, it’s both physical and moral. As if the future of the whole world were in your hands. Like revolution.”
— GOODBYE, RAMONA, Montserrat Roig
The weather is unsettled, menacing. Blue horizons disappear into the mist. Clouds project erratic shadows which move across flat ground and mountain sides. The sun has lost the joyous resplendence which excited the cicadas and made them sing; only from time to time does its languid face appear, producing on the ground patches of dim yellow light which are soon extinguished, leaving behind a feeling of inexplicable melancholy.
— JACOBÉ & FINETA, Joaquim Ruyra
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