''Meridià '' was a
Catalan magazine published every week and directed by
A. Fuster Valldeperas. The first issue was published 14 January 1938, and it was published more than fifty times until 14 January 1939. The historical context is the
Spanish Civil War that took place from 1936 until 1939.
The magazine had 8 pages with 4 columns and it had a measurement of 500×350 mm. It was printed in Clarassó, situated in the Street Villarroel 17 of
Barcelona and it had the editorial office in Passeig de Grà cia 19 bis in the same city. Each number cost fifty cents of
peseta.
[Torrent, Joan; Tasis, Rafael. ''Història de la premsa catalana''. Barcelona: Bruguera, 1966. (vol. I, p. 659)]
Theme and collaborators
The themes of the magazine were politics, art and literature. It had a subtitle that showed that the people doing it were against the fascism and that they were intellectuals. ''Meridià '' tried to maintain the prestige of a previous magazine called '.
The influence of the political party
PSUC
The Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia ( ca, Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya, PSUC) was a communist political party active in Catalonia between 1936 and 1997. It was the Catalan branch of the Communist Party of Spain and the only party n ...
was very important in the direction of the magazine. Nevertheless, there was a certain eclecticism in the direction and the collaboration of ''Meridià ''. Its pages contained a great diversity of topics of a great variety of s\tyles. The magazine had an amazing quality with a lot of photos and images that illustrated all the works that were published in it. Moreover, it had an excellent typographic disposition.
The articles were divided into different groups that were Collaboration, Politics, Arts, Literature, Shows and Humor. The editors of the magazine were
Sebastià Gash,
Domènec Guansé,
LluÃs Montanyà ,
Joan Oliver Joan may refer to:
People and fictional characters
*Joan (given name), including a list of women, men and fictional characters
*:Joan of Arc, a French military heroine
*Joan (surname)
Weather events
*Tropical Storm Joan (disambiguation), multiple ...
,
J. Roure-Torrent,
M. Serra i Moret,
Manuel Valldeperes and the head of edition was
Joan MerlÃ. Later on, this team changed a little bit due to the historical circumstances of the moment.
The usual collaboration of ''Meridià '' was very extensive. We find essays and works of
Pere Quart,
Pau Balcells,
Joan Comorera,
Joan Peiró
Joan Peiró i Belis (sometimes Juan Peiró) was a Catalan anarchist activist, writer, editor of the anarchist newspaper '' Solidaridad Obrera'', two-time Secretary General of the ''Confederación Nacional del Trabajo'' (National Confederation ...
,
Avel·là ArtÃs-Gener,
Francesc Trabal,
Antoni Rovira i Virgili
Antoni Rovira i Virgili () (26 November 1882 – 5 December 1949) was a Spanish politician and journalist who was president of Catalonia's Parliament in exile after the Spanish Civil War. His term of office lasted from 1940 to 1949.
In his honour ...
,
Rafael Tasis i Marca,
M. Serra i Moret,
C.A. Jordana,
Jaume Serra Hunter,
Felip Barjau,
Josep Sol Josep is a Catalan masculine given name equivalent to Joseph (Spanish ''José'').
People named Josep include:
* Josep Bargalló (born 1958), Catalan philologist and former politician
* Josep Bartolà (1910-1995), Catalan painter, cartoonist and w ...
, among many others. The artistic part was done by famous drawers like
TÃsner,
Apa,
Arteche
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,
Viader
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,
Martà Bas
Martà is a Catalan name and may refer to:
People Surname
*Cristóbal Martà (born 1903), Spanish footballer
*David Martà (born 1971), Spanish Oscar winner for best makeup
*Enriqueta Martà (1868–1913), Spanish "witch"
*Farabundo Martà (1893†...
,
Calders, etcetera.
The literary importance of ''Meridià '' is quite remarkable and it is a wonderful historical source from the difficult period of time in which it was published.
References
External links
Digitalization available in the ARCA Portal (archive of antique Catalan magazines)
Catalan-language magazines
Defunct political magazines published in Spain
Defunct literary magazines published in Europe
Literary magazines published in Spain
Magazines established in 1938
Magazines disestablished in 1939
Magazines published in Barcelona
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