The «Other Essays» of Jaume Serra Húnter. unpublished Catalan Writings in his Posthumous Work

Abstract

Jaume Serra Húnter’s «Other Essays» were published in Spanish translation  at the end of his posthumous book El pensamineto y la vida: estímulos para filosofar of  1945, published in Mexico. The Catalan original, on the other hand, although it also in cluded «Other posthumous studies», did not include five of these texts, which remained  exclusive to the Spanish edition. A recent bilingual digital reprint, published in 2020  by UNAM, adds further confusion by separating these posthumous studies into two  distinct chapters. So where do these «Other Essays» come from? We first aim to contex tualise the appearance of this work in order to formulate a hypothesis that reinforces the  urgent need to draw up a catalogue and a precise classification of Jaume Serra Húnter’s  work and to stop using misleading or erroneous terminology. We then devote the main  part of the text to resituating in their original language these articles, which until now  were only known in a translation by Pere Matalonga.