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Obra completa (Destino) #11
Homenots. Primera sèrie
Obra Completa 11. Josep Pla Homenots. Primera sèrie. (Prat de la Riba, Pompeu Fabra, Joaquim Ruyra, Ramon Turró, Antoni Gaudí, Isidre Nonell, Eugeni d'Ors, Jaume Bofill i Matas, Caries Riba, Francesc d'A. Galí, Joan Crexells, Joan Estelrich, Sadurní Ximénez, Miró i Folguera, Joaquim Pena)
648 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
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Josep Pla
219 books121 followersJosep Pla i Casadevall (known as José Pla in Spanish) (March 8, 1897, Palafrugell, Girona - April 23, 1981, Llofriu, Girona) was a Catalan journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, England, Germany and Russia, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan.
The most important characteristics of the “planian” style are simplicity, irony, and clarity. His works show a subjective and colloquial view, “anti-literary”, in which he stresses, nevertheless, an enormous stylistic effort by calling things by their names and “coming up with the precise adjective”, one of his most persistent literary obsessions.
Pla lived completely dedicated to writing. The extent of his Obres Completes - Complete Works (46 volumes and nearly 40,000 pages), which is a collection of all his journals, reports, articles, essays, biographies and both long and short novels.
His liberal-conservative thought, skeptic and uncompromising, filled with irony and common sense, keeps sounding contemporary, completely current, even though it seems to contradict the current cultural establishment same as it did with its completely opposed antecessor. His books remain in print and both Spanish and Catalan critics have unanimously recognized him as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
The most important characteristics of the “planian” style are simplicity, irony, and clarity. His works show a subjective and colloquial view, “anti-literary”, in which he stresses, nevertheless, an enormous stylistic effort by calling things by their names and “coming up with the precise adjective”, one of his most persistent literary obsessions.
Pla lived completely dedicated to writing. The extent of his Obres Completes - Complete Works (46 volumes and nearly 40,000 pages), which is a collection of all his journals, reports, articles, essays, biographies and both long and short novels.
His liberal-conservative thought, skeptic and uncompromising, filled with irony and common sense, keeps sounding contemporary, completely current, even though it seems to contradict the current cultural establishment same as it did with its completely opposed antecessor. His books remain in print and both Spanish and Catalan critics have unanimously recognized him as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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October 10, 2023
Gran obra de Josep Pla. M'han agradat molt el de Gaudí, Pompeu Fabra i, sobretot, el d'Andreu Nin. 4/5
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January 17, 2024"És preferible tenir cent mil catalans que només tinguin un u per cent d'esperit catalanista que mil catalans completament catequitzats. Guanyat l'u per cent, arribar al cent per cent és qüestió de temps." - Prat de la Riba.
"Que la gramàtica es fongui en el subconscient del país" - Pla sobre el projecte de Pompeu Fabra.
"Que no es vagi al Nord a cercar l'art i la bellesa; aquesta es troba a la Mediterrània" - A. Gaudí.
Edició seleccionada amb Prat de la Riba, Vicens Vives, Pompeu Fabra, Andreu Nin, Antoni Gaudí.
"Que la gramàtica es fongui en el subconscient del país" - Pla sobre el projecte de Pompeu Fabra.
"Que no es vagi al Nord a cercar l'art i la bellesa; aquesta es troba a la Mediterrània" - A. Gaudí.
Edició seleccionada amb Prat de la Riba, Vicens Vives, Pompeu Fabra, Andreu Nin, Antoni Gaudí.
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