The Realist Novel in Catalonia: Narcís Oller and His Works

The realist novel
Representatives of relevant realist novel in Catalonia in the trenches Carlos Bosch (1831-1897), Josep Pin i Soler (1842-1927) Monserdà Pain (1845-1919) Mariano Vayreda (1853-1903) and especially Narcissus Oller.
Narcis Oller Valls was born in the year 1846 and moved to Barcelona to study law. He combined his professional activity to court literary creation. Adopted as the Catalan language works in the late seventies, for indication of his cousin, the literary critic Joseph Yxart. Considered the father of modern Catalan novel, died in Barcelona in the year 1930.
The dollar novels present characters and environments of the nineteenth century Catalonia.
-Butterfly (1882) portrays the relationship between an innocent and sensitive girl and a seductive student who disappeared after leaving her pregnant
-The escanyapobres (1884) examines the passion lavarícia lOleguer through a wagoner receives Mote dEscanyapobres Tuies and his wife, in the historical context of the impact of the Industrial Revolution in the world agricultural-Catalan
-Villains (1885) traces the portrait of an archetypal village districts, inspired Valleys, and the role it is slander.
Dor-foot (1890-1892) shows, from the particular history of the carpenter Gil Foix and his family, social lascensió lespeculació stock thanks to the artisans who produced the 1890 and 1891, and subsequent decline. At the same time, bears witness to the transformation of Barcelona into a modern and cosmopolitan city.

Madness (1898) is a novel that examines the insanity of its protagonist, Daniel Serrallonga, and their personal and social consequences, from three complementary viewpoints: compassion by the narrator, deterministic vision of the doctor and the 'most superficial appreciation of a third character.
Pilar Prim (1906) is the story of a young woman and a widow, inheriting a large fortune, who falls for the lawyer Marcial Deberga but can not marry him because it prevents the wills of their husband, family pressure and social prejudices
Oller also cultivate the story, often experienced as a laboratory where situations and characters for your novel, theater, and Russian translations of French authors and literary memoirs.