"Today's Catalonia cannot please any young person of clear and high intelligence [...] The market-like, Jewish, Sancho Panza-like Catalonia, prude and counterfeiting must disappear before an educated Catalonia, aware of its worth, with its own education, free-spirited and quite expansive." This excerpt from the article Catalan youth today, written by Jaume Brossa (Sant Andreu, 1875 - Barcelona, ​​​​1919) and published in the magazine The Advance In 1893 it is found at the beginning of the chapter that José-Carlos Mainer (Zaragoza, 1944) dedicated to the so-called "regional literatures" - Catalan, Basque and Galician - in an essay of reference in the Hispanic world, The Silver Age, first published in 1975 in Los Libros de la Frontera by the editor and bookseller José Batlló, still during the Franco dictatorship, and now recovered by Taurus with a new prologue by the author and an epilogue signed by Jordi Gracia and Domingo Ródenas de Moya.