The presentation of ‘Kennedyana’, the posthumous book by Vicenç Pagès Jordà, yesterday closed a tribute at the Blanquerna Faculty of Journalism, where he taught, with participants such as Adrià Pujol Cruells, Ernest Folch, Jordi Marrugat, his daughter Berta Pagès, Joan Burdeus, Màrius Serra, Josep Lluís Micó, Miquel Berga, Eva Comas, Marc Pastor, Jordi Cornudella, Víctor García Tur and Jordi Puntí. All of them tried to define the literary figure of Pagès. Four hours difficult to define. Perhaps you could try a list of 7 keywords mentioned in this meeting (one of the preferred strategies (narrative, pedagogical) of the writer who died on August 27.
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“A very typical thing of his writing and his way of teaching. In the enumeration there is a mixture of order and chaos, a list is something very jazzy” (Joan Burdeus)
Authority
“His classes were collaborative, not in the ‘hippie’ sense because there was authority. The key is that he earned it” (Joan Burdeus)
Articles
“Articulism was a part of living writing, it was a gym to strengthen writing, a continuous project over time, of reading others, talking about them, making a cultural plot, incorporating foreign authors” (Adrià Pujol)
Criticism
“The great favor he did us was to always read us, from a middle point, indicate what we were doing wrong with severity but ‘bonhomia’ and celebrate what we did well” (Adrià Pujol)
Nostalgia
“There is an element that surrounds all his work, which is nostalgia. Although they call it ‘vintage’ because it is more ‘cool’. From his point of view, the past was more powerful than the present and in many cases the future. pop, the cultural referents of the 70s and 80s were used to define the characters through them'” (Berta Pagès) “I popularized everything” (Adrià Pujol)
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“He derives pleasure from the combination of writing, from a will that is initially hooligan; but his will to play is both transcendental and banal. It is a very serious game that reminds Father Batllori when he spoke of transcendental humor” (Màrius Serra)
Classic (or modern)
“I defined it as ‘postmodern classicist’, its operation is to reintroduce the classic form of the novel but without forgetting everything that has happened since the nineteenth-century novel, the avant-garde, postmodernism, postcolonial theory, meta-literature, intertextuality , the crisis of the subject… Assume experimentation but in a harmonic way” (Jordi Marrugat)