Narcís Oller

Narcís Oller i de Moragas (Catalan pronunciation: [nəɾˈsiz uˈʎe]; 10 August 1846, in Valls – 26 July 1930, in Barcelona) was a Catalan writer, most noted for the novels La papallona (The Butterfly) which appeared with a foreword by Émile Zola in the French translation; his most well-known work L'Escanyapobres (The Usurer); and La febre d'or (Gold Fever) which is set in Barcelona during the period of promoterism. His novel La bogeria has been translated into English by Douglas Suttle under the title The Madness, published by Fum d'Estampa Press, 15 September 2020. He also translated the works of Tolstoy and Dumas.

Narcís Oller i de Moragas
1934 bust
1934 bust
Born(1846-08-10)10 August 1846
Valls, Spain
Died26 July 1930(1930-07-26) (aged 83)
Barcelona, Spain
OccupationNovelist
Literary movementRenaixença, Realism, Romanticism

Media related to Narcís Oller at Wikimedia Commons

  • Narcís Oller at the Association of Catalan Language Writers. (in English, Spanish, and Catalan)
  • "Narcís Oller". lletrA-UOC – Open University of Catalonia.
  • Works by Narcís Oller at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)


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