El farmacèutic català creador de cultura.

Resumen

This thesis is a deep study of the literary work of fiction of ten pharmacists, all of them Catalan writers of the XXth century. In the history of Pharmacy it is an original work on a subject never studied before. At the background of this work is an important bibliographical legacy of special interest for both the Pharmacists and the experts of Catalan literature. The result is a work of very special interest in promoting and publicising the culture of the pharmaceutical class. In fact, these prominent contemporary personalities are thoroughly studied through their personality, aspirations and work. All this has been achieved by analyzing very accurately their academic and professional life. The author has also gone through the awards granted to them for their literary production and the honours they have received. The works they have written have been carefully studied and extracts from these works have been used to support the own vision of the author. Whenever it has been possible, literary critics opinion has been used. After this deep study of the life and work of every author, a personal interview of each of them has been conducted as if made by a specialist journalist. The very same questions were asked to each of the authors so that they might express their ideas in the most original way without thinking about the consequences of their answers. Proceeding as we have, we have been able get brilliant and diverse opinions on the same subject. And, finally, we have drawn a serie of conclusions which fit, to a great extent, the main axis of our work, connection pharmacy/literature. The authors studied are: Josep Alegre Marcet; Lluís Beringues; Francesc Blancher; Miquel Crusafont; Rosa Fabregat; Ramon Jordi; Núria Mínguez; Martí Sunyol; Gerard Vergés; Guillem Viladot.