Carles Fages de Climent
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Carles Fages de Climent (Figueres
Figueres
Figueres is the capital of the comarca of Alt Empordà, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.The town is the birthplace of artist Salvador Dalí, and houses the Teatre-Museu Gala Salvador Dalí, a large museum designed by Dalí himself which attracts many visitors...

, 1902–1968) was a writer, poet and journalist from the Empordà
Empordà
Empordà is a historical region of Catalonia divided since 1936 into two comarques, Alt Empordà and Baix Empordà....

, a historical region of Catalonia, Spain. He was born in Figueres on the 16th of May 1902. In Figueres' high school, he met Salvador Dalí
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....

, starting a friendship that would last all their lives.

Fages de Climent contributed to the literary mythification of his native region, taking the Empordà
Empordà
Empordà is a historical region of Catalonia divided since 1936 into two comarques, Alt Empordà and Baix Empordà....

, the northern wind, the tramuntana and its people as a thematic basis of a multiple literary production (poetry, prose, theater and journalism). Thus, he created literary characters like the Cobbler of Ordis
The Cobbler of Ordis
The Cobbler of Ordis is a literary character created by the Catalan poet Carles Fages de Climent, who in 1954 published "The balad of the Cobbler of Ordis", a book of poems prologated by the Catalan writer and philosopher Eugeni d'Ors, and illustrated – including an epilogue – by Salvador Dalí, a...

 – comparable, according to Eugeni d'Ors
Eugeni d'Ors
Eugeni d’Ors i Rovira was a Catalan Spanish writer, essayist, journalist, philosopher and art critic...

 to Don Quixote of Cervantes. He also contributed in a decisive way to conferring determinate attributions to certain villages of the Empordà like (Llers
Llers
Llers is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Spain....

, land of witches; or Vila-sacra
Vila-sacra
Vila-sacra is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain....

, capital of the world).

Fages and Dalí

He collaborated several times with his friend and schoolmate Salvador Dalí, who, in 1924, being still almost unknown painter, illustrated a book for the first time. It was Fages' poem, in Catalan language Les bruixes de Llers (The Witches of Llers). He illustrated as well another book of Fages de Climent, La balada del Sabater d'Ordis (The Balad of the Cobbler of Ordis) (1954), writing also the epilogue. They finally worked together at the occasion of the homage that the city of Figueres
Figueres
Figueres is the capital of the comarca of Alt Empordà, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.The town is the birthplace of artist Salvador Dalí, and houses the Teatre-Museu Gala Salvador Dalí, a large museum designed by Dalí himself which attracts many visitors...

 paid, in 1961, to Salvador Dalí. They made an auca
Auca (cartoon)
An auca is a genre of a story in pictures developed mainly in Catalonia.-Description:The auca was present in some other parts of Spain, even though it was most popular in Catalonia. It has a structure somewhat similar to comics, but has more rigid...

 – a series of pictures with captions in rhyming couplets which tell a story – entitled in Catalan language El triomf i el rodolí de la Gala i en Dalí (The triumph and the couplet of Gala and Dalí). Fages put the verses and Dalí the drawings. The text is a poetic biography of the painter and the ilustracions provide a brilliant synthesis of all the Dalinian symbology. Thus, the soft watches, the ants, the Angelus of Millet
Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France...

, the shoemaker of Ordis
Ordis
Ordis is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain....

, and some of the main Dalinian referents, like Picasso or Gaudí.

It is also worth mentioning Dali's paintwork "Christ of the Tramontana", held in the Dalí Theatre and Museum
Dalí Theatre and Museum
The Dalí Theatre and Museum , is a museum of the artist Salvador Dalí in his home town of Figueres, in Catalonia.- History :The heart of the museum was the building that housed the town's theatre when Dalí was a child, and where one of the first public exhibitions of young Dalí's art was shown...

– carried out by Salvador Dalí in homage to Fages de Climent on the occasion of his death, and that makes allusion to one of the most popular verses of Fages de Climent, "The Prayer to the Christ of the Tramuntana".
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