“Jaume Vallcorba was the quintessential humanist editor. Cult, refined, brave and with a love of books that fueled everything,” says Rafael Argullol this medium who, with more than half of his 25 books published in Cliff, is a reference to the greatness of a seal managed to turn in bestsellers works as outright intellectual load The World of Yesterday of Stefan Zweig, the Essays Montaigne or their ultimate success, The usefulness of the useless , the Italian professor Nuccio Ordine.
Behind these achievements that marked a before and after in the history of independent publishing in Catalan Castilian-and through the seal Quaderns cream that launched in 1979 the philologist and essayist Vallcorba Jaume was a free soul who boasted to publish only what he loved and died yesterday at 64 years old due to a brain tumor that never demean their commitment to quality, as evidenced by the Editorial Cliff advance for the next quarter (Pessoa Simenon, Bassani, Fumaroli and Goodbye to Berlin Isherwood), where you can encounter your dedication and love for the job well done.
Born in Tarragona on 21 November 1949, Vallcorba studied Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a doctorate at the University of Barcelona with a thesis on Josep Maria Junoy and early European avant-garde. The author of the poems also i Onades estels (1974) or postals (, 1981) and Reading Chanson de Roland never withdrew from the academia and the speech he prepared to fire the last class of the Master’s edit-and Pompeu Fabra University, for his poor health, his wife Sandra Ollo read on 1 July-texture becomes today a professional will . There he revealed that began “at school, with a magazine mimeographed” his career of more than 30 years for “a profession at the crossroads of intellectual and craftsmanship in the manufacture of the book, as well as some business destination in its publication, distribution and sale. ” A task where “humility”, he warned, “it is essential”: “The editor must know to shut up and not be too often must make visible what was called the exits in the theater by the forum.”.
books Cliff, with its distinctive cover in red and black, with their typographical elegance and careful choice of paper, reflecting the condition of resistance of those who, in times of electronic displays, was aware of the circumstances changing Anagram colleagues and Tusquets.
A last Mohican who became an inspiration to new generations of editors. So believes Enrique Redel, soul Impedimenta seal, which qualifies as “full editor” to this “independent extremely exquisite and controversial degree” man who was the only editor who personally received the National Award for Best Editorial Labor (in 2002). And is that, unlike in the past, life Vallcorba received every award in the industry, the latest being in July, the Culture Prize of the Government.
For Redel “is impossible to conceive right now without an independent Spanish publishing history of those founded by Vallcorba: Quaderns Cream, eclectic, committed, groundbreaking at the time, and reference the dialogue between the new and the old, the Sirmio pride, short-lived, but retrospective in their proposal, and of course Cliff, the perfect model of modern publishers have bailouts that followed in its wake: erudite, playful, with a perfect, visionary “design.
A Elena Medel, editor of Cordoba seal Beauty Warsaw, Vallcorba was impressed by “his love for his balance. Need harmony between the book as a text and the beauty of the book as object also harmony a catalog bent on stressing to teachers outside while attentive to the new names, including the South. For look at recent authors, discovered and promoted Javier Mije poems and aphorisms Andrés Neuman “.
If Quaderns Cream Vallcorba released the Poesies of Ausiàs March and served as a springboard for young Catalan promises (Quim Monzo, Sergi Pàmies or Empar Moliner) on Cliff managed to fulfill another dream: to be perceived with the flight having the fundamental testimony of XX century featuring Stefan Zweig (who had begun publishing in Sirmium) in The World of Yesterday today. And for that, as he taught his teacher and friend Martin de Riquer, it was necessary for a dialogue with the Viennese spirit akin to writers like Joseph Roth and Chateaubriand, “because that conversation,” he argued, “is what gives shape to any publishing catalog. “
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