Bøger af Josep Pla

Amb el seu estil viu, poètic i ric d’ironia i humor, Josep Pla presenta les diverses facetes d’aquesta singular vila, una de les més boniques i característiques de la Costa Brava, que no ha estat desfigurada pel gegantisme d’altres poblacions de la mateixa costa. El Cadaqués de Josep Pla, un dels primers escriptors vivents en llengua catalana, no és només una interpretació de la història de la vila, sinó una personalíssima evocació del paisatge, de l’economia i de la psicologia d’aquella aïllada zona costera._x000D_© JOSEP PLA, 1947, y Herederos de JOSEP PLAJosep Pla i Casadevall (Palafrugell, 1897 - Llofriu, 1981) va estudiar a Barcelona i des de jove va treballar com a periodista, en especial a La veu de Catalunya. Va ser un prolific i conegut autor, va publicar nombroses obres com Cadaqués, traduida a molts idiomes.Trabajó en muchos diarios de la época, especialmente en La veu de Catalunya, del que fue corresponsal parlamentario en Madrid durante cinco años, y La Publicitat, forjándose asimismo un sólido prestigio por sus magníficos artículos como corresponsal en el extranjero.

Award-wining literary translator Peter Bush brings to English this most prolific and influential of Catalan writers.

A book of stories, or "narrations," by the finest Catalan writer of his generation. In this beautiful work, translated into English for the first time, Pla transcribes his witnessings of basic truths: the waves of the sea, the hardness of rolled tobacco. The reader feels tangibly the pleasure with which Pla puts the sensual and real on paper.

Josep Pla's masterpiece, The Gray Notebook, is one of the most colorful and unusual works in modern literature. In 1918, when Pla was in Barcelona studying law, the Spanish flu broke out, the university shut down, and he went home to his parents in coastal Palafrugell. Aspiring to be a writer, not a lawyer, he resolved to hone his style by keeping a journal. In it he wrote about his family, local characters, visits to cafés; the quips, quarrels, ambitions, and amours of his friends; writers he liked and writers he didn't; and the long contemplative walks he would take in the countryside under magnificent skies. Returning to Barcelona to complete his studies, Pla kept up his diary, scrutinizing life in the big city with the same unflagging zest and humor.Pla, one of the great Catalan writers, held on to this youthful journal for close to fifty years, reworking and adding to it, until he finally published The Gray Notebook as both the first volume and the capstone of his collected works. It is a beautiful, entrancing, delightful book-at once a distillation of the spirit of youth and the work of a lifetime.