1.1. Rubén Dario

Darío was invited by the Sureda family. owners of the palace in 1906. The monkish character of the monastery impressed him and he even started wearing a Carthusian habit. Darío returned to the monastery in 1913. when he wrote the novel El oro de Mallorca (Majorcan Gold) and composed the poem “La Cartuja” (The Charterhouse). which he said was “the best I’ve ever written in my life”./nThis ancient monastery has seen./ndry from praying and pale from fasting./nwith the breviary and the Holy Christ./nthe silent children of San Bruno./nA los que en su existencia solitaria/ncon la locura de la cruz. y al vuelo/nmísticamente azul de la plegaria./nfueron a Dios en busca de consuelo./nThose who in their lonely existence/nwith the madness of the cross/nand the mystically blue flight of prayer./nwent to God for comfort./nMortificaron con las disciplinas/ny los cilicios la carne mortal./ny opusieron. orando. las divinas/nansias celestes al furor sexual./nThey mortified. with disciplines/nand with hairshirts. the mortal flesh./nand they brought. in their prayers. divine/ncelestial longing against sexual furor./n(Fragment of the poem The Charterhouse. Rubén Darío. 1913)