DE FIT A FITBoth Tatjana Gromaca and Joan Brossa may seem two very different poets, but they are linked by one word: war. Firstly, Tatjana Gromaca is a poetess born in the Croatian part of the former Yugoslavia. She lived the Yugoslavian War (1991-2001), in which Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia where the ones who suffered most due to the war. Because of this war, Tatjana decided to develop poetry with a strong social criticism, and looking for a way to express the sadness that a war produces. Likewise, Joan Brossa participated in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), as part of the republican army, in Lleida, as part of the called “Lleva del biberó”, who were just teenagers that were sent to war. When he was at the war, he started to believe in the randomness (he saved his life by pure luck during the war) and he developed a strong antimilitarism. When the war ended, he decided to make poetry in Catalan, illegally, and as Tatjana did, with a strong social criticism.

The biggest similarity between both authors is their social and political commitment that determined their choice of themes. Both poets make a bad review about capitalism and hypocrisy in the people, while expressing their feelings of pain and refuse of war, despite the fact that they experienced the war in a different way.

Miquel Blanco Dorca