DE FIT A FIT. LLIBRE D’ARTISTA BROSSA-GROMACA.

Tatjana Gromaca and Joan Brossa, two poets, two worlds, two generations, two historical moments and some words to say and make feel.

Joan Brossa, Barcelona 1919; Tatjana Gromaca, Croatia 1972. In two different points of history, separated by more than fifty years, two people are born. They, who will grow up in unrelated atmospheres, will fight for similar causes, nearly parallel.

The Catalan’s life will be immediately influenced by the Spanish Civil War: firstly, he will have to enroll in a levy being only seventeen years old (this levy, popularly called “la Lleva del biberó” in Catalan, is famous due to the low age of its members). Fortunately, a slight wound will allow him to run away from it. This fortuitous situation will be an inflection point in his life and since this moment he will start to believe in chance. Secondly, he will be forced to go to Salamanca for four years, where he will be formed to be a soldier. After that, with the Civil War finished and fascism implemented, he will combat it with all his strength in different ways: he will surround himself with good friends with the same ideology to write clandestine magazines, theater plays and above all, to create combative art, usually poetry, which will pass through different movements like Surrealism or Dadaism.

The poetess, till now, has kept a similar fight. Using only poetry, the strength of words like a weapon, a sword to stab her enemies, she has tried to transmit all the pain, the losses, the evil which has imbued her land the last decades due to the Yugoslavian Civil War which took place at the end of the twentieth century. Her country had been artificially created by force and consequently, the discomfort exploded. Now they still suffer its consequences.

Two artists, soldiers united by the same enthusiasm and hope to change the things and achieve, using words, peace, justice and freedom, someday.