Antoni Comas i Pujol
Spanish historian and writer (1931-1981)
Antoni Comas i Pujol (January 3, 1931, in Mataró – March 24, 1981, in Barcelona) was a literary historian and literary critic, member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans and elected member of the Acadèmia de Bones Lletres. He married Dolors Lamarca with whom he had three daughters.
Childhood and youth. Education
The most extensive information about his formative stage during childhood and youth was provided by Antoni Comas himself in the two autobiographical prologues to individual historical monographs on the Mataronian society. Born into a workers family with deep Christian convictions, he was a student at the Escola Pia in his city where he found the stimulus to learn, and, despite Franco's regime, a respectful look towards Catalan culture and language. In the field of non-formal education and leisure, its active participation in the Foment Mataroní and the Lluïsos should be highlighted. Two entities linked to the parish of Santa Maria de Mataró where young people with cultural and civic concerns gathered. The Popular Library, located right in the same square as his school, which was directed by Claudi Mayol and the librarian Pilar Cuadrada, also played a prominent role in his education. About that period, Antoni Comas used to comment, "I read many, many works of Catalan and foreign literature, not only with delight, but with avidity".
In 1948 he entered the University of Barcelona as a student of Philosophy and Letters.
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