La Renaixensa

Description

Editorial La Renaixensa, founded by Pere Aldavert, emerged from the initiative of a magazine created in 1871. It was headquartered at number 13 Carrer Xuclà in Barcelona. In 1873, Àngel Guimerà joined its management at a time when the company needed a printing press of its own in order to keep watch over its output. Thus, a private company was created with the partners Pere Aldavert, Àngel Guimerà, Iu Bosch and Tadeu Monge.

During the 35 years it was in operation, La Renaixensa not only published newspapers but also issued publications for a variety of organisations, such as the Lliga de Catalunya and the Unió Catalanista, rooted in the Catalanist project of the Renaixença movement. Even though the newspaper La Renaixensa disappeared in 1905, the publishing house continued under the leadership of Aldavert, promoting the publication of new authors with the goal of fostering Catalan language and literature. It also published foreign authors such as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky in order to encourage reading habits in contemporary Catalan society.

La Renaixensa

Authors

The authors published include thinkers and politicians from both Catalonia and abroad, as well as the literati of the day.

• Aldavert, Pere, 1850-1932

• Almirall, Valentí, 1841-1904

• Aulèstia y Pijoan, Antoni, 1849-1908

• Balaguer, Víctor, 1824-1901

• Bofarull, Antoni de, 1821-1892

• Collell, Jaume, 1846-1932

• Coroleu, José, 1839-1895

• Genís i Aguilar, Martí, 1847-1932

• Guimerà, Àngel, 1845-1924

• Matheu, Francesc, 1851-1938

• Milà i Fontanals, Manuel, 1818-1884

• Oller, Narcís, 1846-1930

• Pin i Soler, Josep, 1842-1927

• Riera i Bertran, Joaquim, 1848-1924

• Soler, Frederic, 1839-1895

• Verdaguer, Jacint, 1845-1902

• Vidal de Valenciano, Cayetano, 1834-1893

• Vilanova, Emili, 1840-1905

La Renaixensa

Collections

La Renaixensa promoted the dissemination of literature, history and political works. One of the ways it reached people was through the serials that accompanied the newspaper La Renaixensa, such as the Novelas Catalanas y Extrangeres and Biblioteca Recreativa collections.

La Renaixensa

Magazines

La Renaixensa was founded as a literary and arts magazine which became a newspaper, although it retained the section on literature and the arts. The company behind this publication created Editorial La Renaixensa, whose most prominent publications were:

• La Renaixensa: diari de Catalunya (1881-1905)

• La Renaxensa: periodich de literatura, ciencias y arts (1871-1898)

La Renaixensa

Outstanding works

• Almirall, Valentí. Lo Catalanisme. Barcelona: La Renaixensa, 1886. 

• Coroleu, Josep. Claris y son temps: quadros de costums políticas del sicle XVII...[etc.]. Barcelona: La Renaixensa, 1880

• Desclot, Bernat. Crónica del Rey en Pere e dels seus antecessors passats. Amb un prefaci sobre 'ls cronistas catalans per Joseph Coroleu. Barcelona: La Renaixensa, 1885. Edition of the Chronicle written in 1288. 

• Guimerà, Àngel. Gala Placídia. Barcelona: La Renaixensa, 1879. 
  The publishing house, in which the playwright Àngel Guimerà was a partner, published his entire oeuvre of plays after they had premiered.

• Oller, Narcís. La Papallona. Barcelona: La Renaixensa, 1882. 
  Publication of the first famous work by Narcís Oller. After this edition, a new version corrected by the author was issued with a prologue by Émile Zola.