"Puck: The impertinent question": exhibition at the Communication Library and General Newspaper Archives
What were the origins of the literary interview in Catalonia? And what role did one of its pioneers, Vicenç Caldés i Arús "Puck", play?
25/04/2024
The Communication Library and General Newspaper Archives presents the exhibition “Puck: The impertinent question. Caldés i Arús, pioneer of the literary interview in Catalan”. Visit it on the ground floor of the library!
The enigmatic “Puck” –Vicenç Caldés i Arús (1886-1969)– was the first in Catalonia and throughout the country to bet, in the magazine Teatràlia, in 1910, on the literary interview of a character: It was a genre that was already successful in the United States and Great Britain, and which became a recurrent media format until today. This form of interview portrays celebrities in intimacy and is also considered an impertinent, somewhat rude genre, related to the liberality of customs and modernity. The genre indicates the consolidation of the new industrial press, informative and more visual, and of mass culture and society.
In this exhibition we present the discovery of the first series of interviews in Catalan in the context of that rising mass press, as well as an overview of the genre, and we pay attention to the magazine Teatràlia and the character of Caldés i Arús.
Credits and acknowledgments
This exhibition is the result of the collaboration between the Communication Library and General Newspaper Archives and Professor David Vidal Castell, from the UAB Department of Media, Communication and Culture, and has been made possible thanks to the research of Doctor Vidal, who has received a grant from the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
The original documents of Vicenç Caldés i Arús that are on display belong to the Pere Calders Personal Fund, deposited in the Humanities Library. The Communication Library and General Newspaper Archives wishes to thank the Humanities Library for the loan of these valuable materials, as well as a series of books that complete the exhibition.
The showcase has been kindly lent by Cultura en Viu UAB.
The poster and the graphic image of the exhibition have been made by Sergi Calvet Renedo.
You can ask for the list of the displayed materials through the Pregunt@ service.
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