\u00a0<\/em>You should answer two questions: who brought Chesterton to Catalonia and for what reason.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em>To answer these questions a bibliographic search was started. The country\u2019s libraries, archives and bookshops (second-hand and other) were researched. Works edited by Plaza & Jan\u00e9s in the 1960\u2019s and 70\u2019s were found, along with some volumes by Chesterton translated into Catalan in the 1930\u2019s. Jordi Gal\u00ed and Dr. D\u00eddac Parellada had published respectively <\/em>El comprom\u00eds politic de Chesterton and <\/em>Recordatori a Chesterton to coincide with the 100th<\/sup> anniversary of his birth. To be fair, bibliography related to Chesterton\u2019s two stays in Catalonia was scarce.<\/em><\/p>\n Access to the internet facilitated a worldwide bibliographic search. Chesterton being a prolific and multi-faceted writer, a whole Chestertonian universe was opened. He published some ninety books and around four thousand articles. Apart from being a writer who pursued many literary genres, he was renowned as a polemicist and an apologist. Following with the research, the catalogues of universities, national libraries, archives and foreign collections were examined. Visits were made to Italy, France and Madrid. In Rome, documents were obtained from several public or Catholic universities, and the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale. In Paris and Lyon an extensive volume of articles, essays and literary reviews were obtained. In Madrid, documents were examined in the Archivo General de la Administraci\u00f3n (Alcal\u00e1 de Henares) on Francoist censorship and Chesterton\u2019s published work; in the Hemeroteca and the Residencia de Estudiantes, documentation was researched related to his stay in Madrid and the lecture he gave there in the spring of 1926, before going to Barcelona. A subject-arranged library was created. Works by Chesterton, biographies or books about the writer were acquired in Argentina, Mexico, Italy and France. The publishing houses Acantilado, Renacimiento and Valdemar started publishing works not available in Spanish up to that point. As the size of the document collection grew, a new systematic organization was needed. The worldwide research permitted at the same time to establish contacts with other associations from abroad, such as Les Amis de G. K. Chesterton of Philippe Maxence, the Societ\u00e0 Chestertoniana Italiana of Marco Sermarini or Chesterton Institue for Faith and Culture at Seton Hall University.<\/em><\/p>\n An agreement was reached with Dr. Jaume Aymar, then dean of the Facultat de Filosofia at the Universitat Ramon Llull, to carry out the donation of the documental collection to the Universitat Ramon Llull and begin the work and coordination of the G. K. Chesterton Study and Documentation project.<\/em><\/p>\n Josep Carbonell i Rod\u00e9s<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][\/et_pb_accordion][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Project Centre d\u2019Estudis i Documentaci\u00f3 G. K. ChestertonThe G. K. Chesterton Study and Documentation Centre project (CEDGKC in its Catalan initials) stems from the donation to the Facultat de Filosofia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1280","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cedgkchesterton.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/breu-historia_CEDGKC.jpg\")
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