Antoni Careta i Vidal
1843–1924
Biography
Antoni Careta i Vidal (1843–1924) was a Catalan writer, translator and poet. He was born in Gràcia, which was then a separate town beside Barcelona, and he died in the city in 1924. He also wrote a few plays, but most of his work was journalism and popular fiction: for decades he supplied weekly papers and magazines with articles, translations, verse and serialised novels in the folletín style of the period.
He was an active member of the Catalanist movement and a firm defender of the Catalan language. He helped found the paper La Bandera Catalana with Josep Fité i Anglès, directed the magazine Lo Gay Saber between 1878 and 1880, and contributed to many of the cultural periodicals of his day, among them the Calendari Català. In 1901 he published a dictionary of what he saw as barbarisms that had crept into Catalan, and he opposed the spelling rules that Pompeu Fabra was promoting.
His story L'ull acusador, published in 1905, is counted by the Catalan Wikipedia among the earliest science-fiction stories written in Catalan. The book on this site, Narracions estranyes, includes it alongside ¡Oydà! and L'embaixada de la mort. Together these tales show a side of his writing that goes beyond the journalism and translation for which he is otherwise remembered.
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Books
Narracions estranyes: ¡Oydà! - L'ull acusador - L'embaixada de la mort
by Antoni Careta y Vidal
Three long tales by Antoni Careta y Vidal, the first told by an old soldier who promises the most remarkable event of his life without a word added. The others, The Accusing Eye and The Embassy of Death, turn on crime, conscience and the uncanny.
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.