Manuel Vazquez Montalban

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (Barcelona, Spain, June 14, 1939 - Bangkok, Thailand, October 18, 2003) was a Spanish writer best known for his novels starring detective Pepe Carvalho..

An almost endless personality, he defined himself as "journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologist, foreword writer, humorist, critic, gourmet, culé and prolific in general", fields in which he stood out.

Biography

He grew up in Plaza del Pedró, in the Raval, the only child of a dressmaker and a militant of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) and did not meet his father until he was 5 years old, when he was able to leave the jail. He himself was later a member of that party after first passing through the Popular Liberation Front (FELIPE), joining in 1961; he even became a member of its Central Committee; then he was also in Iniciativa per Catalunya (ICV).

He studied Philosophy and Letters at the University of Barcelona, where he met his future wife, the historian Anna Sallés, and at the Barcelona School of Journalism. In December 1961 they were married and in 1962 a War Council sentenced him to three years in prison and his wife to six months, along with two other students, for participating in a strike in support of the Asturian miners. He spent them in the Lérida jail, where he wrote his first book, the essay Information Report , as well as two books of poetry and the embryo of a future novel; but he only served eighteen months in prison, since he went out on the streets in October 1963 thanks to a pardon on the occasion of the death of Pope John XXIII.

At that time he survived with small jobs writing articles for the publishers Larousse first and then Espasa, until, thanks to his friend Francisco Camino, in 1965 he joined the editorial staff of the anti-Francoist illustrated weekly Siglo XX, which it barely lasted eight months until the Press Law of 1966 sponsored by Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne; In that year the journalist went on to write the magazine Hogares Modernos until in 1969, thanks to César Alonso de los Ríos, he really began his journalistic career in the prestigious magazine Triunfo under the pseudonym "Sixto Cámara", a famous nineteenth-century Spanish socialist journalist, debuting with the well-known series of articles "Sentimental Chronicle of Spain". He also collaborates in various publications such as Solidaridad Nacional, Tele / eXprés , Por Favor and later in El País and Interviú , in which he wrote until his death.

In 1966 his only son, Daniel Vázquez Sallés, was born, who would also become a writer and would give him two grandchildren: Daniel and Marc. Marc died on April 30, 2021, at the Niño Jesús Hospital in Madrid, victim of a fulminant septicemia at the age of 10 years.

In 1967 he published his first collection of poems, A sentimental education, followed in 1969 by Movements without success. In this same year he abandoned active militancy, as his wife had already done in 1967, although not Marxist ideas, and his novel Remembering Dardé appears along with a series of stories; it is his first foray into narrative. And in 1972 he published the first novel whose protagonist is the private detective Pepe Carvalho, undoubtedly his most popular character, I killed Kennedy . He is a very peculiar character: gourmet, disenchanted with all ideology and book burner; With the series of novels that he dedicates to this character, he becomes a benchmark of the Spanish crime novel and one of the most prominent representatives of it internationally. Having become a sought-after professional writer, he used to say: "Until the 1970s I lived to write, from then on I wrote to live." According to his son, he was an "uncomfortable travel companion of the gauche divine & # 34; and an anarchist at heart, as well as a generous man who gave prologues and sought editorials for writers.In 1995 he received the National Prize for Spanish Letters in recognition of all his work.

Vázquez Montalbán died on October 18, 2003 due to cardiac arrest at the airport in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. He was 64 years old. On February 3, 2009, the Plaza Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was inaugurated in Barcelona, located between Calle San Rafael and Rambla del Raval, near where the writer was born. At the end of 2016 his archive and library were donated to the Library of Catalonia by his widow Anna Sallés.

The poet

He began as a poet in 1963 and was chosen as one of Castellet's nine controversial nine. In 1968 it was included in the Anthology of the new Spanish poetry. His production is characterized by a playful sense and irony, always with a testimonial and critical load. ] In Memory and desire. Poetry 1967-1983 brought together all his previous poetic work, from A sentimental education to Prague, to which he would later add But the fleeing traveler in Memory and desire. Poetic work 1967-1990. Afterwards, he single-handedly published the volume City , in 1997, and the anthology of erotic poetry Ars amandi in 2001.

All the work of Vázquez Montalbán forms a coherent project based on the need to recover the past, that is, history and memory, from a critical conscience and committed to the word. In his poetry all his literary proposals are present, he combines realism and avant-garde configuring a collage where those influences that determined his memory and, therefore, his cultural identity, always hybrid and mestizo, converge, testimony of the resistance against oblivion of several generations who lived under Francoism. This project arises, therefore, from the need for an emancipatory culture that gives voice back to those silenced by the system, who do not have access to the power of speech. One of the most interesting issues in this regard is the recovery of popular culture with which, not only does this narration of memory carry out, but also this poetics of rupture is structured, since; "The confluence of literature and popular culture in memory allows the overcoming of the traditional elitist barriers built by the cultural arbiters of hegemony" (Colmeiro, 2007: 5)

Skeptical about the transformative power of poetry, a point that distances him from social poetry at a time when it is in crisis, in his poetic work he confronts the conflicts of reality, going beyond a realistic aesthetic, through experimentation. He builds a poetry of the experience as a whole: “Polyhedral and inclusive, in it the dream coexists with the imaginary, the aesthetic experience with the different states of consciousness facing history and facing intimacy, including the love relationship, and in it interrelate personal and collective memory.” (Manuel Rico, 2008: 15)

We find ourselves, then, with a poetics, as we say, heterodox and mestizo, which combines social poetry and the avant-garde, always marked by tensions between the historical-biographical character, and the reflection on the autonomy of poetic language and the contemporary denial of its referential character. All this structured on two fundamental concepts that will give name to his complete poems: memory and desire. On the one hand, collective memory of the inheritance received, and also intimate memory of their own vital experience from which their identity arises, and on the other, desire as utopia, a metaphor for the impulse of hope towards happiness, and as lucidity before the easements of history. This confluence of memory and desire inspires, as Mari Paz Belibrea points out, all of MVM's work;

Memory and desire, memory and hope, chronicle of the past and utopia of the future, reality and dream, individual and collective at the same time. Memory and desire that are precisely the fundamental words of T. S. Eliot [...]. The chaotic universe, composed of desolation and despair, where neither past nor future offer redemption, is the pathetic incarnation of the wasteland that has created industrial capitalism. (1999: 12)

The Novelist

The features of his poetry also appear in the novels of Vázquez Montalbán. In it, in addition to the series that has Carvalho as the protagonist, highlights include The Pianist (1985), Recalmere Award winner, on the role of the artist in contemporary society, The cheerful boys of Atzavara (1987), moral x-ray of the emerging Spanish social elite at the end of Francoism, Galíndez (1991), National Narrative Award and European Literature Award, which narrates the kidnapping in 1956 in New York by Jesús de Galíndez, representative of the Basque government in exile, El estrangulador (1994), Critics' Award, and Erec y Enide (2002).

Carvalho Series

Vázquez Montalbán created one of the most successful and prolific crime novel series in Spanish literature. This series, starring detective Pepe Carvalho, was an expressive vehicle for the author to bequeath a sociopolitical, historical and cultural chronicle of the last 40 years.

Thus, each novel is clearly set in the historical context in which it was written. For example, in Assassination in the Central Committee 1981, the murder of a communist leader is consummated in the midst of the crisis of the Eurocommunism of the PCE, while in 1993 the splendors of the Olympic Barcelona will be the focus of the adventures of the detective in Olympic sabotage.

The novels serve at the same time to unleash the writer's unleashed passion for gastronomy. Different characters, some created ex-profeso, such as Fuster, serve as an excuse for the author to discuss the virtues of the Argentine barbecue or the forcefulness of the ajoarriero.

The gourmet

In all the novels of the Carvalho series there is some gastronomic reference, with some unforgettable recipes such as the fideuá based on rice noodles prepared by The Birds of Bangkok (1983). This close relationship with gastronomy became one of the hallmarks of the series, to the point that the presentation of The Birds of Bangkok, organized by Editorial Planeta, took place in a exotic Madrid restaurant.

The gastronomic recipes in the series were compiled in 1989 in the book Carvalho's Recipes, which after his death was reissued in 2012 under the title Carvalho Gourmet. He is also the author of a gastronomic encyclopedia of ten illustrated volumes, which he published between 2002 and 2003 under the title Carvalho gastronómico.

Among his numerous works on gastronomy, Contra los gourmets (1985) stands out, a work for initiation into the world of gastronomy where he displays his extensive gastronomic knowledge and covers all foods and all kitchens in the world. world, both Spanish and international cuisine, traditional cuisine and nouvelle cuisine.

In his will, he arranged for him to be cremated after his death and for his ashes to be scattered in the small Cala Montjoi, on the Costa Brava in Girona, where El Bulli, reputed to be the best restaurant in the world, was located.

The essayist

He wrote essays on journalism, politics, sociology, sports, history, cooking, biographies, literature or music and for a while he was considered an expert on Francoism. His first essay, Informe sobre la Información (1963) remains one of the best studies on journalism published in Spain. Other important works are Subnormal Manifesto, 1970, Crónica sentimental de España, 1971, Joan Manuel Serrat, 1972, The gray book of Spanish Television, 1973, Dictionary of Francoism, 1977, Franco's family demons, 1978, History and social communication, 1980, My lunches with disturbing people, 1984, Sentimental chronicle of the transition, 1985, Against gourmets, 1985, Pamphlet from the Planet of the Apes, 1995, Passionflower and the Seven Dwarfs, 1995, A Pole in the Court of King Juan Carlos, 1996, analysis of political life in Madrid in the last years of the government of Felipe González, And God entered Havana, 1998, about Cuba, Fidel Castro and the visit of Pope John Paul II, Marcos: the lord of mirrors, 1999, about Subcomandante Marcos and the uprising in Chiapas and La aznaridad, 2003, published posthumously.

The journalist

The Debate publishing house published all the journalistic work of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán in three volumes, the first of which brings together his articles from his youth, written between 1960 and 1973.

The second volume was published in February 2011 and the last, in February 2012. The one that opens the series, 'Volume I. The construction of columnist (1960-1973)', recalls his debut in the Falangist press and the subsequent difficulties in finding work, after a conviction for a political crime.

After Siglo 20, a general information magazine in which he is editor-in-chief and which was closed by ministerial order, he earns his living in Modern Homes, a decoration magazine of which he is the sole editor.

In the first newspaper that hired him, Tele/eXprés, he continued his tests with fiction and later in the magazine Triunfo he already became a reference with his new-style reports and columns in which he mixed political commentary with fictional characters.

The anthology will continue with 'From humor to disenchantment (1974-1986)', which begins with Por Favor, Vázquez Montalbáns most ambitious attempt to laugh and inform time, with the help of Forges, Perich, Maruja Torres, Joan de Sagarra, Joan Fuster and Juan Marsé.

The third volume, 'The lost battles (1987-2003)', when it was already a reference point for left-wing journalism and combined the weekly columns in El País, Interviú and the newspaper Avui.

Awards and tributes

Biblioteca Pública Municipal Vázquez Montalbán.

Vázquez Montalbán received numerous awards throughout his life, including the following:

• 1991, National Narrative Award, for Galíndez.
• 1992, European Literature Award, by Galíndez.
• 1994, Critics Award, for The strangler.
• 1994, Ennio Flaiano International Literature Award, by Autobiography of General Franco.
• 1995, Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas.

Plaza Vázquez Montalbán in San Baudilio de Llobregat.

Since 2007 there is a street called "Manuel Vázquez Montalbán" in the town of Getafe (Madrid). Previously, the City Council of San Baudilio de Llobregat (Barcelona) gave this name to a square located in the Casablanca neighbourhood. The Civic Center & # 34; Vázquez Montalbán & # 34; of Vallvidrera (Barcelona) and the Institute of Secondary Education "Manuel Vázquez Montalbán" of San Adrián de Besós (Barcelona), which adopted this name after his death. Since June 29, 2018, it also has a roundabout in the Madrid town of Valdemoro.

Awards in your name

• The Association of Journalists of Catalonia has since 2004 awarded the International Prize for Vazquez Montalbán Journalism in its memory. This is delivered in the categories of sports journalism and cultural and/or political journalism, thus recalling the two facets of his work in this field.
• In 2004 he was dedicated the 8th Nostrom Maritime Narrative Award that went to stop the novel The Poison of the Scorpion.

• In 2006 the Barcelona City Council first gave the Pepe Carvalho Award, which was awarded to writers of police or black novels.

Tributes from other writers

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán has inspired the Italian writer Andrea Camilleri when it comes to naming the protagonist of his series of novels and short stories about Commissioner Montalbano. Thus, Montalbano would be an Italianization of Montalbán. In fact, the fictional character is fond of detective novels written by Vázquez Montalbán, which made up the series about Pepe Carvalho.

Work

Poetry

• A sentimental education, El Bardo, 1967
• Unsuccessful movements, El Bardo, 1969
• Coplas at the death of my aunt Daniela, El Bardo, 1973
• In the shadow of girls without flowers, El Bardo, 1973
• Prague, Lumen, 1982
• Memory and desire. Poetry 1967-1983Seix Barral, 1983
• But the traveler running awayVisor, 1990
• Memory and desire. poetic work 1967-1990Grijalbo, 1990
• CityVisor, 1997
• Ars amandi, Bartleby Editors, 2001, anthology
• Rosebud, unpublished Memory and desire, 2008
• Construction and deconstruction of a Proust almond theory complementary to the construction and deconstruction of a Benet Rossell muffin theoryalmost unpublished included in Memory and desire, 2008
• Memory and desire. Complete poetry 1967-2003Peninsula, 2008

Novel

• Recalling Dardé (in Recalling Dardé and other accountsSeix Barral, 1969, and Three exemplary novelsBruguera, 1983, Espasa-Calpe, 1988)
• I killed Kennedy. Prints, observations and memories of a bodyguard, Carvalho series, Planet, 1972
• Tattoo, Carvalho seriesBatlló, 1974, Planet, 1986
• Happy end, Gaya Science, 1974 (also in Three exemplary novelsBruguera, 1983, Espasa-Calpe, 1988, and Subnormal writingsSeix Barral, 1989, Mondadori, 2000)
• The solitude of the manager, Carvalho series, Planet, 1977
• The South Seas, Carvalho series, Planet, 1979
• Murder at the Central Committee, Carvalho seriesPlanet, 1981
• The birds of Bangkok, Carvalho series, Planet, 1983
• Dr. Betriu's private life (in Three exemplary novelsBruguera, 1983, Espasa-Calpe, 1988)
• The rose of Alexandria, Carvalho seriesPlanet, 1984
• The pianist, Lesson Circle, 1985, Mondadori, 1996
• The killife, Almarabu, 1986 (also in Pigmalion and other accounts, Seix Barral, 1987, Mondadori, 2000)
• The Spaniard, Carvalho seriesPlanet, 1986
• The happy boys of AtzavaraSeix Barral, 1987, Mondadori, 2000
• Pygmalion (in Pygmalion and other accountsSeix Barral, 1987, Mondadori, 2000)
• Murder in Prado of the King (in Murder in Prado of the King and other sordid stories, Carvalho seriesPlanet, 1987)
• QuartetMondadori, 1988 and 2001
• The center front was killed at sunset, Carvalho series, Planet, 1988
• Galíndez, Planet, 1990
• The Greek maze, Carvalho seriesPlanet, 1991
• Autobiography of General FrancoPlanet, 1992
• Olympic sabotage, Carvalho series, Planet, 1993
• The little brother (in The little brother, Carvalho seriesPlanet, 1994)
• Roldán, neither alive nor dead, Carvalho seriesPlanet, 1994
• The stranglerMondadori, 1994 and 2000
• The award, Carvalho series, Planet, 1996
• The girl who could be Emmanuelle, Carvalho series, El País, 3-30 August 1997 (also in Black counts, Gutenberg Galaxy, 2011)
• Quinteto de Buenos Aires, Carvalho series, Planet, 1997
• Or Caesar or nothing., Planet, 1998
• The lord of the bonsai, Alfaguara, 1999
• The man of my life, Carvalho series, Planet, 2000
• Erec and Enide, Planet, 2002
• Millennium Carvalho I. Rumbo to Kabul, Carvalho series, Planet, 2004
• Millennium Carvalho II. In the antipods, Carvalho series, Planet, 2004

Story

• Recalling Dardé and other accountsSeix Barral, 1969
• Stories of ghosts, Carvalho seriesPlanet, 1987
• Stories of parents and children, Carvalho seriesPlanet, 1987
• Three stories of love, Carvalho seriesPlanet, 1987
• Pygmalion and other accountsSeix Barral, 1987, Mondadori, 2000
• Stories of politics fiction, Carvalho seriesPlanet, 1987
• Murder in Prado of the King and other sordid stories, Carvalho seriesPlanet, 1987
• The little brother, Carvalho seriesPlanet, 1994
• White counts, Gutenberg Galaxy, 2011
• Black counts, Carvalho series, Gutenberg Galaxy, 2011

Essay

• Information report, Fontanella, 1963, third expanded edition, 1975
• Subnormal Manifesto, Kairos, 1970 (also in Subnormal writingsSeix Barral, 1989, Pellicanolibri, 1980)
• Sentimental Chronicle of Spain, Lumen, 1971, Grijalbo, 1998
• Joan Manuel SerratJucar, 1972, 1976, 1978 and 1984, Nortesur, 2010
• The gray book of Spanish Television, Editions 99, 1973
• News and information, Salvat Editors, 1973
• The Chilean way to the coup d'etatSaturn, 1973
• American penetration in SpainPapers for Dialogue, 1974
• Hundred years of song and Music Hall, Difusora Internacional, 1974
• The Sistine Chapel: from the Burgos process to the spirit of FebruaryKairos, 1975
• What is imperialism?Gaya Science, 1976
• Franquismo DictionaryDopesa, 1977
• How they liquidated the Franco regime in sixteen months and one day, Planet, 1977
• Images and memories. 1919-1930. The rebellion of the masses, Difusora Internacional, 1977
• L'art del menjar a Catalunya, Edicions 62, 1977
• Franco's family demons, Dopesa, 1978, Public Journal, 2009
• Catalan cuisine: the art of eating in CataloniaPeninsula, 1979
• The free word in the free city, Gedisa, 1979
• History and social communicationBruguera, 1980, Critics, 1997, Mondadori, 2000
• The Spanish cuisines: Catalonia; Extremadura; Galicia; ValenciaSedmay, 1980
• Immoral recipes, Oh Sauce, 1981, Afanias, 1996
• My lunches with disturbing peoplePlanet, 1984
• Sentimental Chronicle of the Transition, Planet, 1985
• Against gourmets, Difusora Internacional, 1985, Mondadori, 2001
• Time for the table, Difusora Internacional, 1986
• BoatsEmpúries, 1987
• BarcelonasEmpúries, 1987
• Rafael Ribó: l'optimisme de la raó, Planet, 1988
• Rafael Ribó: the optimism of reason, Planet, 1988
• Scenes of universal literature and portraits of great authors (Willi Glasauer drawings), Lesson Circle, 1988
• L'esquerra neccessàriaofficial administration agencies, 1989
• Carvalho recipes, Carvalho seriesPlanet, 1989
• Subnormal writingsSeix Barral, 1989, Mondadori, 2000
• Moscow of the Revolution, Planet, 1990
• Twenty-five years, twenty-five yearbooks: from the New York blackout to the fall of the Berlin WallInternational Diffuser, 1991
• GauguinFlohic, 1991
• Literature and the construction of the democratic cityBancaja, 1992
• Decàleg del culé, Column, 1992
• Black novel, political novelIbercaja, 1993
• Felicists (On the Misery of Practical Reason)El País/Aguilar, 1994
• Panfleet from the planet of apesCritics, 1995, Mondadori, 2000
• Passionary and the seven dwarfs, Planet, 1995
• Les meves receptes de cuina catalana, Editions 62, 1995
• Power, Espasa, 1996, anthology of texts, selection of Francisco J. Satué
• A Polish in the Court of King Juan Carlos, Alfaguara, 1996
• The scribe sittingCritics, 1997, Mondadori, 2001, Public Journal, 2009
• Elogis desmesuratsPush, 1997
• Literature in the construction of the democratic cityCritics, 1998, Mondadori, 2001
• And God entered Havana, El País/Aguilar, 1998
• Marcos: the lord of the mirrors, El País/Aguilar, 1999
• Gastronomic Carvalho 1. Know or not know, Carvalho series, Editions B, 2002
• Gastronomic Carvalho 2. The author kitchen in Spain, Carvalho series, Editions B, 2002
• Gastronomic Carvalho 3. Mediterranean cuisine and mediterraneanity, Carvalho series, Editions B, 2003
• Gastronomic Carvalho 4. Drink or not drink, Carvalho series, Editions B, 2003
• Gastronomic carvalho 5. Mandatory restaurant guide, Carvalho series, Editions B, 2003
• Gastronomic carvalho 6. The kitchen of the flour and lamb, Carvalho series, Editions B, 2003
• Gastronomic carvalho 7. The kitchen of the mestizaje, Carvalho series, Editions B, 2003
• Gastronomic Carvalho 8. The kitchen of the Finisters, Carvalho series, Editions B, 2003
• Gastronomic carvalho 9. Essential dictionary for survival, Carvalho series, Editions B, 2003
• Gastronomic carvalho 10. The other recipe, Carvalho series, Editions B, 2003
• Geometry and compassionMondadori, 2003
• AznarityMondadori, 2003
• Football. A religion in search of a GodOpen Sand, 2005
• The city: that imaginary or circumloquium about the deconstruction of Barcelona, Revista Antipodas, XVIII, 2007
• Jack the Decorator, De Bolsillo, 2008

Theater and radio

• Guillermotta in the country of the Guillerminas, Anagrama, 1973, show Music Hall, music by Juan Luis Moraleda and José Aponte, written to be played by Guillermina Motta (also in Subnormal writingsSeix Barral, 1989, Mondadori, 2000)
• Marxist issues, Anagrama, 1974 (also in Subnormal writingsSeix Barral, 1989, Mondadori, 2000)
• Flower of nit, Editorial Boileau, 1992, musical libretto, music by Albert Guinovart
• Before the millennium separates us. Carvalho against Vázquez Montalbántheatrical monologue Carvalho 25 years. Commemorative case, Carvalho series, Planet, 1997)
• Mary Hitler1984, unpublished radio script

In collaboration with others

• Nine new Spanish poets, Barral Editores, 1970, selection of Josep Maria Castellet, includes poems by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Antonio Martínez Sarrión, José María Álvarez, Félix de Azúa, Pere Gimferrer, Vicente Molina Foix, Guillermo Carnero, Ana María Moix and Leopoldo María Panero
• Hundred years of sport, Difusora Internacional, 1972, several authors
• Diàlegs to Barcelona, Barcelona City Council, 1985, dialogues between Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and Jaume Fuster
• Barcelona, cap a on vas? Diàlegs per a altra Barcelona, Tempestad Política, 1991, dialogues between Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and Eduard Moreno
• Barcelona, where are you going? Dialogues for another Barcelona, Tempestad Política, 1991, dialogues between Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and Eduard Moreno
• Ría de Bilbao: vulkanoren sutegia, Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa, 1994, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and Joan Fontcuberta
• Robinsón’s reflections on a cod (in The gull, Lumen, 1995, by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and Jean-Hubert Martin)
• Carvalho 25 years. Commemorative case, Carvalho series, Planet, 1997:

Before the millennium separates us. Carvalho against Vázquez Montalbán, theatrical monologue by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Carvalho and Vazquez Montalban. Dedicatory I, several authors

Vázquez Montalbán and Carvalho. Dedications II, several authors

A visual walk, photographs of scenarios of the Carvalho series

Pepe Carvalho, a biographical news I. The country of children of Quim Aranda

Pepe Carvalho, a biographical news II. Travel back and forth of Quim Aranda

101 questions about Carvalho. Test of the perfect carvalhist of Quim Aranda

Under a pseudonym

As Luis Dávila

• Politics and sport, Editorial Andorra, 1972, prologue of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

As Manolo V the Empecinate

• The education of Palmira, Editorial Andorra, 1972, comic, drawings of Nuria Pompeia, epilogue of Sixtus House (pseudonym of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán)
• The Best Of Please, Punch, 1974, Jaume Perich vineyards
• Ow! Ow!Sedmay, 1976, Jaume Perich vineyards

As an anthologist

• Anthology of the Catalan nova cançó, Popular Culture, 1968
• General song I, Lumen, 1972
• General songbook of Francoism ICritics, 2000
• General songbook of Francoism IICritics, 2000