Book cover.
Book cover. Cultura The volume Weltliteratur i literatura comparada. Perspectiva des d'Europa (UB Publications and Editions, 2021), curated by Antoni Martí Monterde, lecturer of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the UB, and Enric Sullà, professor of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at UAB, gathers the contributions made by some of the most relevant voices in the field of comparatism in a book that questions the meaning of the current Weltliteratur . On the 31st January, 1827, in a conversation with J.P Eckermann, Goethe stated: "I like to look about me in foreign nations, and advise everyone to do the same. National literature is now a rather unmeaning term; the epoch of world literature is at hand, and everyone must strive to hasten its approach". These words have the bases, the values and the ideals of what has become over the years, comparative literature. However, it has been understood in different ways: for more than a century, each literary generation has felt the need to wonder what Goethe meant at the time and the meaning of this idea at every moment.
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