La recepció de Henrik Ibsen i Gerhart Hauptmann a la literatura catalana del canvi de segle

Resum

At the turn of the century, Ibsen and Hauptmann caused an uproar in the theaters all over Europe with their theses drama, and also did so in Catalonia, which is at a particularly favorable moment for their reception, in an epoch of enormous vitality. The rising Catalan bourgeoisie wants Catalonia to be integrated into modern European culture and, based on its own tradition and language, wants to distance itself from Spanish culture and politics. Ibsen and Hauptmann are received as revolutionary authors by the most committed line of renovadors (innovators), namely as the Ibsen of the ghosts and the enemy of the people and the «naturalistic» Hauptmann. They serve as a model for the renewal of Catalan theatre, which reaches a peak in a short space of time. Only when a new aesthetic norm developed in the form of Noucentisme (from 1906, the year Ibsen died), did the Nordic influence ebb away and Catalonia returned to classic mediterranean Latinity.