Agustí Calvet Pascual (Sant Feliu de Guixols, Girona, October 7, 1887 - † Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1964) was a writer and Catalan journalist, known under the pseudonym Gaziel . Born into a middle class family who emigrated to Barcelona when he was still a child, yet they always kept in touch with his hometown. In 1903 he began his law studies at the University of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bdriven by the desire to win father of a notary. Later he enrolled in the Faculty of Arts, his true vocation. He lived a few months in Madrid, where he received his doctorate in 1908. They had the opportunity to treat various figures of the era, including San Martin Bonilla and his beloved master, Ramon y Cajal, Luis Simarro, Unamuno, and Valle-Inclán Galdós. began his journalistic career in The Veu, the journal of the Regionalist League. In 1911 he began working at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, founded shortly before by Prat de la Riba. In Paris, where he had moved to deepen their knowledge, experienced the outbreak of the Great War, on which he gave a good account in his reports to The Veu. These works did not like to Prat de la Riba (who ran The Veu ) and yes, however, Miquel dels Sants Oliver, who was then still a collaborator with the newspaper Lliga. This led to join Gaziel La Vanguardia to write about Paris during the First World War. His chronicles of the war were widely read in Spain and consecrated as a journalist. From then until 1953, used almost exclusively in Castilian, which won him no little criticism from the most Catalan nationalists. The Barcelona daily, during the Republic became one of those who had more spin in Spain, spent much of his career as a journalist and even got to lead the newspaper between 1920 and 1936. At that time became the most admired political journalist and opinion leader of the liberal bourgeoisie and democratic, which was the natural public La Vanguardia.
the outbreak of the Civil War, fled. His is the sentence: "If the Republic have the right to be absent, when sent the left, and then, when the rights of governing, the left have to go crazy and go to the revolution, no, there has been yet, true democracy in Spain. Like so many other things, Democracy here is not just a name of classical roots and foreign content. "returned to Spain in 1940, pressured by the Nazi advance in Europe. He was tried and acquitted by the Franco authorities. He settled in Madrid, and began to write Catalan books and travel memories. I septuagenarian, returned to Barcelona where he resumed writing enthusiastically in their native language, trying to reconcile with the Catalan of his youth.
full and spirit Republican moderate, secular and democratic, loving their land and language, more federalist than nationalist, died at the age of 77 years and left a literary legacy of eight books in Castilian y catorce en catalán. Josep Benet, en el prólogo a la Obra Catalana Completa (1970) que publicó póstumamente la Editorial Selecta, valoró así su contribución: «Probablemente ha sido el escritor político más inteligente que ha dado la derecha catalana en este siglo». Para muchos es considerado el primer periodista "moderno" del estado español, y el primero en dar una óptica internacional a sus escritos.
Es autor de la frase: « No serán las voluntades de los hombres sino las leyes de la Historia las que alterarán la actual estructura de la Península Ibérica; la mejor forma de producirse esa evolución será dentro de una Europa together. "
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