{{Short description|Catalan journalist, novelist and playwright}} thumb|right|Sketch of Josep Feliu i Codina by Marià Foix (1860–1914) '''Josep Feliu i Codina''' (also known by his Spanish name '''José Feliú y Codina'''; 11 June 1845 – 2 May 1897)<ref>[http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/blanco.y.negro/1920/08/29/026.html "Don José Feliú y Codina"], ''Blanco y Negro'' (Madrid) 29 August 1920</ref> was a Catalan journalist, novelist and playwright whose work is linked to the Realist movement and to the Catalan Renaixença.
==Biography== Codina was born in Barcelona in May 1845. An affiliate of the ''Partit Liberal Dinàstic'' (Liberal Monarchist Party), he took a law degree in 1867 and worked in several administrative posts for the party. He also began his literary career at that time, initially writing in Catalan. In 1867, he founded the weekly periodical ''La Pubilla''. A year earlier, he had produced his first comedy ''Un mosquit d'arbre'' (A Mosquito Tree), and in 1871 his first serious play, ''Els fadrins externs'' (The Strange Companions). He also collaborated (under the pseudonym "Josep Serra") on several plays by Frederic Soler. During his time in Barcelona he went on to write several more plays and novels, and founded two more periodicals, ''Lo Nunci'' and ''La Jornada''.
In 1886, Feliu i Codina moved to Madrid where he became fluent in Spanish. He was the editor ''La Iberia'' and also wrote for ''El Rhin'', ''La América'', ''La Revolución'', and ''La Democracia''. Once in Madrid, much of his dramatic output was written in Spanish. Two of his most well-known plays from that time are ''La Dolores'' (1892) which formed the libretto for Tomás Bretón's 1895 opera of the same name and ''María del Carmen'' (1896) which formed the libretto for Enrique Granados's 1898 opera, ''María del Carmen''. Both plays had several film adaptations. ''María del Carmen'' was also the basis of a Broadway musical, ''Spanish Love'', which opened on 17 August 1920 at the Maxine Elliott Theatre in New York City and ran for 308 performances.<ref>{{IBDB title|id=8904|title=Spanish Love}}</ref> In addition to his own plays and novels, he translated into Spanish a collection of tales by the Italian Renaissance writer, Matteo Bandello, and several short stories by the French novelist and playwright, Honoré de Balzac.
Feliu i Codina's brother, Antoni Feliu i Codina (1846–1917), was a prominent politician and man of letters. Both brothers wrote for the Catalan literary magazine, ''Un troç de paper''. Josep Feliu i Codina died in Madrid on 2 May 1897.
==References== {{Reflist}} *Clark, Walter Aaron, [https://books.google.com/books?id=G0uPUIF8JpoC&pg=PA43&dq=Enrique+Granados+%22Maria+del+Carmen%22 ''Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano''], Oxford University Press US, 2006, p. 39. {{ISBN|0-19-514066-4}} *Enciclopèdia Catalana, SAU, [https://web.archive.org/web/20101004212520/http://www.enciclopedia.cat/fitxa_v2.jsp?NDCHEC=0026367 "Josep Feliu i Codina"] (in Catalan). Accessed 20 January 2009. *Puerto, Pedro Montón, [http://www.calatayud.org/enciclopedia/feliu.htm "Feliú y Codina, José"] on Calatayud.org (in Spanish). Accessed 20 January 2009.
==External links== *Public domain essays written by Josep Feliu i Codina (under the pseudonym "Josep Serra") for the literary magazine, ''Un troç de paper''. All texts are in the original Catalan. **{{Wikisourcelang-inline|ca|Un tros de paper - Converses|''Converses (Retalls d'«Africana»)''}} (Satirical commentary on the opera ''L'Africaine'') **{{Wikisourcelang-inline|ca|Un tros de paper - Un home de sa casa|''Un home de sa casa''}} (Story about the life of Mr. Rafael, a very home-loving man) **{{Wikisourcelang-inline|ca|Un tros de paper - La vetlla del sant|''La Vetlla del Sant''}} (Scenes of a neighbourhood festival celebrating a saint) *Public domain plays written by Josep Feliu i Codina. All texts are in the original Catalan. **''[http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/FichaObra.html?Ref=4865 A ca'la sonambula]'' **''[http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/FichaObra.html?Ref=4660 Del ou al sou...]''
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