by Jacint Verdaguer · Castellnou Edicions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788482878300
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«Canigó» is the epic poem by Jacint Verdaguer, published by Castellnou Edicions in paperback (335 pages, in Catalan).
Epic poem that combines history and legend to give poetic form to the birth of the Catalan nation, one of the great myths of the Renaixença. Set on Mount Canigó in the Pyrenees during the Reconquista, it narrates the journey of the young knight Gentil, a romantic hero who achieves the condition of poet through pure love. It is a key work of Catalan literature.
The work was originally published in 1886. This edition is part of the Clàssics Catalans collection, number 20, edited by Josep Paré.
For students of Catalan literature and readers interested in the classics of Romanticism and the Renaixença.
Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló was a Spanish writer and priest, regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a cultural revival movement of the late Romantic era. The bishop Josep Torras i Bages, one of the main figures of Catalan nationalism, called him the "Prince of Catalan poets". He was also known as mossèn (Father) Cinto Verdaguer, because of his career as a priest, and informally also simply "mossèn Cinto".
