Narcís Oller

Narcís Oller: Narcís Oller i Moragas

Bust by Eusebi Arnau (1934)

Born 10 August 1846(1846-08-10)
Valls, Catalonia

Died 26 July 1930(1930-07-26) (aged 83)
Barcelona, Catalonia

Occupation Novelist

Literary movement Renaixença, Realism, Romanticism

Influences

Alarcón, Balzac, Víctor Català, Fernán Caballero, Dumas, Goethe, Lamartine, Longfellow, Tolstoy, Émile Zola

Influenced

Víctor Català, Joan Maragall

Narcís Oller i Moragas (Catalan pronunciation: [narˈsiz uˈʎe]) (Valls, 10 August 1846; Barcelona, 26 July 1930) was a Catalan author, most noted for the novels La papallona (The Butterfly) which appeared with a foreword by Émile Zola in the French translation; his most well-known work L'Escanyapobres (The Usurer); and La febre d'or (Gold Fever) which is set in Barcelona during the period of promoterism. He also translated the works of Tolstoy and Dumas.

External links

Narcís Oller in LletrA, Catalan Literature Online (Open University of Catalonia) (English) (Spanish) (Catalan)

Persondata

Name Oller, Narcis

Alternative names

Short description

Date of birth 10 August 1846

Place of birth Valls, Catalonia, Spain

Date of death 26 July 1930

Place of death Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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Narcís Oller i Moragas
Bust by Eusebi Arnau (1934)
Born	10 August 1846(1846-08-10) Valls, Catalonia
Died	26 July 1930(1930-07-26) (aged 83) Barcelona, Catalonia
Occupation	Novelist
Literary movement	Renaixença, Realism, Romanticism
Influences Alarcón, Balzac, Víctor Català, Fernán Caballero, Dumas, Goethe, Lamartine, Longfellow, Tolstoy, Émile Zola
Influenced Víctor Català, Joan Maragall