The Inheritance of Modernisme: Antoni Fuster i Valldeperes

Abstract

This article explores the characteristics of the literature of writers who, when literary Catalan modernism had died out, used many of the features of the movement in their work. An analysis of the costumbrism-based novel Perot i l’Estel (1932), by Antoni Fuster Valldeperes, shows the return to the debate on madness, the expression of individual standpoints and the portrayal of a wide range of revolutionary
ideals, the main themes of which are Catalanism, universalism, Republicanism and anarchism.