El dijous 26 d'octubre de 18 a 20 h. al Saló d'Actes del MACE

Antoni Marí (Ibiza, 1944) studied Philosophy and Letters and is a Doctor and emeritus Professor of Art Theory at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. Poet, essayist and narrator, he is the author of a widely translated, extensive and award-winning literary work that shares the same concern for the roots of artistic creation, aesthetic experience and metaphysical interrogation. He has been founder and director of the poetry collection Nuevos Textos Sagrados of Tusquets. As an essayist he has focused on the field of modernity; the fruit of this work is the anthology of German romanticism L'entusiasme i la quietud and the essays Euforió: esperit i naturalesa del geni (1979), La voluntat expressiva (1988) for which he won the National Prize for Catalan Literature, Formes de l'individualisme (1994), Tàpies, certeses sentides (2003), La vida dels sentits (2004), L'esplendor de la ruïna (2005), La imaginació noucentista (2009), El conflicte de les aparences (2016) and Set aproximacions a María Zambrano i un acostament (2016). He became known as a poet with El Preludi (1979), a collection of poems that has been followed by other works such as Un viatge d’hivern (1989) for which he won the National Critics Award and El Desert (1997), Poemes (2000), Tríptic des Jondal (2003), Han vingut uns amics (2010) and Ombra i llum. Variacions sobre un tema romàntic (2019). As a narrator he has published El vas de plata (published in Catalan in 1991 and in the author's Spanish version in 1992), for which he won the City of Barcelona Prize and the Serra d'Or Criticism, and the novels El Camí de Vincennes, Prudenci Bertrana Prize (1995), Entspringen (2000) and Llibre d'absències (2012).