EUGENI D'ORS

'Eugeni d’Ors i Rovira' (Barcelona, 1881 – Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1954) was a Spanish writer, essayist, journalist, philosopher and art critic from Catalonia. He wrote in both Castilian and Catalan.

He studied laws in Barcelona and got his PhD degree in Madrid.
He collaborated from 1906 on in ''La Veu de Catalunya'' and was a member of Catalan Noucentisme. He was the secretary of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans in 1911 and director of the ''Instrución Pública de la Mancomunitat de Catalunya'' in 1917, but he left in 1920 after Enric Prat de la Riba's death. In 1923 he moved to Madrid where he became a member of the Real Academia Española in 1927. In 1938, during Spanish Civil War he was the minister on Fine Arts in Burgos.

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Works

In Catalan

In Castilian

Works

In Catalan

★ ''La fi d’Isidre Nonell'', 1902 (narración)

★ ''Gloses de quaresma'', 1911

★ ''La ben plantada'', 1911

★ ''Gualba la de mil veus'', 1911

★ ''Oceanografia del tedi'', 1918

★ ''La vall de Josafat'', 1918

★ ''Gloses de la vaga'', 1919

In Castilian

★ ''Estudios de arte'' (1932)

★ ''Introducción a la vida angélica. Cartas a una soledad'', 1939

★ ''Novísimo glosario'' (1946)

★ ''El secreto de la filosofía'', 1947

★ ''La verdadera historia de Lidia de Cadaqués'', 1954