«“i tots fruiríem la pau”: Eugeni Ors, Gaziel i la Guerra Gran

Ors and Gaziel did not participated in the conflict, but they were witnesses, one from Paris with a slightly partisan view. The other trying to adopt a super partes position, and looking for an equidistant position, from a Europeanist perspective. Ors’ is one more of the many Catalan witnesses to the Great War. Gaziel’s diary written in Paris at the beginning of the war, shows some of those powerful intellectual discussions. Many contemporaries through prose fiction, memoirs, essays and journalism or poetry expressed their refusal of the war: Rusiñol, Agustí Calvet ‘Gaziel,’ Apel·les Mestres and Joan Pérez-Jorba, among many others. The testimonies and reactions of Ors and Gaziel are representative of that of other Catalan intellectuals, as privileged spectators of the Great War. The writings they produced confirm that cultural products related to war are not neutral. By rejecting and opposing it, or by trying to create a narrative super partes they still are involved politically, particularly in the construction of an enemy or trying to create a moral discourse that reunites old foes.