author
Pompeyo Gener
1848–1920
A lively and controversial fin-de-siècle writer, he moved between literature, journalism, philosophy, and public debate. His work reflects the restless, argumentative spirit of Barcelona and Paris at the end of the nineteenth century.
2 Audiobooks
Los Cent Conçeyls del Conçeyl de Cent
by Pompeyo Gener
La taverna intel·lectual : (De les meves memòries)
by Pompeyo Gener
About the author
Born in Barcelona in 1848 and dying there in 1920, Pompeyo Gener was a Spanish writer, journalist, and dramatist often associated with Catalan intellectual life. Sources also describe him as having studied pharmacy in Barcelona and later medicine in Paris, a background that helps explain the scientific and philosophical tone of much of his writing.
Gener wrote in both Spanish and Catalan, and he became known for essays, plays, and provocative works that mixed literature with big ideas about science, religion, history, and society. One of his best-known books is La mort et le diable (1880), and library records also connect him with works such as Inducciones and Pasión y muerte de Miguel Servet.
He remains an unusual figure: part man of letters, part polemicist, and part public intellectual. Modern reference sources note both his literary activity and his involvement in the ideological debates of his time, which gives his work a strong personality even today.