Instead, creation is kept alive though the translator's work, and the translation process gives life to different literary traditions in a reciprocal manner.

Translation is not a process that comes after literary creation, limited to communicating what was created in a closed literary context in another language. This extreme example has been used to begin this report on translation in Catalonia, with the affirmation that translation is the touchstone in any living literature. Indeed, in the definitive version of a work that represents one of the high points of Catalan poetry, clear traces of the Spanish version can be found: some of the most perennial Catalan verses were 'given' to the poet during his work on the Spanish translation. The poet's dedication to translation and to poetic creation during the first years of his exile is touching, but still more poignant is the fact that, thanks to his work, we are able to read, in detail, about how languages mutually nourish one another. The second was the translation of the poem into Spanish undertaken by Carner for publication in Mexico in 1940, and the third, definitive version came after a final revision and was published in Buenos Aires in 1941. The first version was for an edition by the Institution of Catalan Letters (Institució de les Lletres Catalanes or ILC), whose activities were ceased when Franco's troops entered Barcelona in January 1939. PRESENTATION The latest edition of Nabí by Josep Carner enables one to take a detailed look at the creative process of the three versions of the text written by the poet over a two-year period.

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