High in the sky: America from a French concentration camp: The letters of Pere Vives i Clavé

• Autores: Marta Marín i Dòmine
• Localización: Catalan Review: international journal of Catalan culture, ISSN 0213-5949, Vol. 25, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Catalan culture and the French camps, 1939: literary and visual representations / guest editor, Marta Marín-Dòmine), págs. 81-94
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In only forty-one letters, of which fifteen addressed to friend and writer Agustí Bartra, Pere Vives manages to construct a voice from the exclusion of his internment in a French camp. The letters are indeed an interpellation of a subject in the process of losing his identity, succumbing to the excess of a body that has become too real, and hence is in the state of losing signification. As a way to compensate for this loss, Pere Vives tries to rely on cultural images, references and an imaginary landscape —in this case, the Americas—that represented at that time the possibility of constructing a new identity