This essay aims to propose a revision of Dionýz Ďurišin's concept of Interliterary Community and Pierre Bourdieu's concept of Field, in order to explain the possibilities of an inner comparative frame in Catalonia, which may be very interesting to the contemporary idea of European literature. The frame reflection by Ďurišin, subject to a thorough review, may be a good framework to understand the place of Catalan literary tradition in European literature in the twentieth century, and even more clearly in the last thirty years. But in this revision it's necessary to consider that interliterariness is deeply conditioned by tension between political, intellectual and literary fields. Catalonia can be conceived as a community with a double interliterary process: on the one hand, by belonging to the Iberian interliterary community—which differs from others by its definition of conflict—, but on the other hand in an inner relationship with literatures written in Spanish in Catalonia—by Catalans but also American writers—, with the growing situation of literatures written in others languages in Catalonia, with other individual writers' situations, and so on; all this together with current relations with European and American literature. So Catalonia should be a double case because the relationship between Catalan literature and other literatures occurs both outside and inside, in a dimension almost unique in Europe, but not quite unlike other European references. In this respect, Catalan literature may become, along with these other references, a key part of the redefinition of contemporary cultural identity
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