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Private Life

By: Josep Maria de Sagarra

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Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary detail. The novel, practically a roman-à-clef for its contemporaries, was a scandal in 1932. The 1960's edition was bowdlerized by Franco's censors. Part Lampedusa, part Genet, this translation will bring an essential piece of 20th-century European literature to the English-speaking public.

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Archipelago

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0914671278

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9780914671275

Private Life

By: Josep Maria de Sagarra

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091467126X

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9780914671268

The Gray Notebook

By: Josep Pla

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The Gray Notebook

By: Josep Pla

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.

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657

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New York Review of Books

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1590176715

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9781590176719

MemÃ2ries

By: Josep M. de Sagarra

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MemÃ2ries

By: Josep M. de Sagarra

En aquestes extraordinàries Memòries, publicades originalment el 1954, Josep M. de Sagarra evoca els orígens de les seves famílies paterna i materna (primera part), i després (en quatre parts més) relata la seva vida d'infantesa i joventut, fins als vint-i-cinc anys. Més enllà de l'interès que tenen com a testimoniatge personal d'un dels autors cabdals de la literatura catalana del segle XX, les Memòries de Sagarra constitueixen un retrat riquíssim, amè i verídic d'un període molt rellevant la vida cultural, social i política a Barcelona: el que ocupa les primeres dècades del segle, fins a la fi de la primera guerra mundial. I, per damunt de tot, es tracta d'un llibre que, encara avui, és un dels grans monuments literaris de la prosa catalana: una obra magistral, d'estil brillant i de lectura apassionant.

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220

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Grupo Planeta Spain

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849930432X

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9788499304328

El poema de Nadal

By: Josep M. de Sagarra

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El poema de Nadal

By: Josep M. de Sagarra

Quan ve Nadal, la cançó del miracle,amb pessebre de molsa i arboç,ens fa pensar en unes ganes molt vives,ens fa pensar en un desig de debòde donar coses al Noi de la Mare,coses que vinguin de dintre del cor...".El poema de Nadal recupera aquest text clàssic de la literatura catalana i l'enriqueix amb els gravats que Enric C. Ricart (1893-1960) va realitzar per a la primera edició, apareguda el 1931.

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Grupo Planeta Spain

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8429761748

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9788429761740

Las rumbas de Joan de Sagarra

By: Joan De Sagarra,Josep Maria Carandell,José Martí Gómez,Enrique Vila-Matas,Miquel Molina,Begoña Gómez Urzaiz

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Las rumbas de Joan de Sagarra

By: Joan De Sagarra,Josep Maria Carandell,José Martí Gómez,Enrique Vila-Matas,Miquel Molina,Begoña Gómez Urzaiz

Libros de Vanguardia se honra en rescatar, con motivo del 50.o aniversario de su publicación, un clásico del columnismo contemporáneo. Joan de Sagarra plasmó en estas rumbas un momento cargado de intensidad de la vida en Barcelona, por donde desfilan protagonistas de la gauche divine, cantantes de la nova cançó, escritores, arquitectos y modelos, las Ramblas, el Bocaccio y el gorila Copito de Nieve, Stendhal y Dylan Thomas. Dio rienda suelta a su jazz verbal, cáustico y desinhibido. Solos de trompeta que quitan la respiración y concitan a su alrededor los temas de una época mítica.

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214

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Libros de Vanguardia

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8416372942

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9788416372942

Book's by Josep Maria de Sagarra

Private Life

Private Life

Private Life

Private Life

The Gray Notebook

The Gray Notebook

MemÃ2ries

MemÃ2ries

El poema de Nadal

El poema de Nadal

Las rumbas de Joan de Sagarra

Las rumbas de Joan de Sagarra

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