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Costa Brava
Barcelona. 1973. Destino. 22x17. 540p.
Hardcover
Published January 1, 1973
About the author
Josep Pla
219 books123 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 13, 2022
Una mirada única a tot aquest territori que tant m'agrada. És una llàstima no conèixer en profunditat alguns dels pobles de què parla (i llegir-ho quan ja no hi puc anar tant fàcilment). Però vaja, és una guia de viatge! La gràcia és que hi vagis després, no que el llegeixis com una novel·la.
El vaig començar com una curiositat i pensant que faria el pica-pica en alguns pobles. Però és addictiu, me l'he acabat llegint tot.
És un llibre llarg i exhaustiu i està ple de moments únics gràcies a l'escriptura de Pla. Els detalls de vivències personals són fantàstics.
Crec que el tindré present molts estius.
El vaig començar com una curiositat i pensant que faria el pica-pica en alguns pobles. Però és addictiu, me l'he acabat llegint tot.
És un llibre llarg i exhaustiu i està ple de moments únics gràcies a l'escriptura de Pla. Els detalls de vivències personals són fantàstics.
Crec que el tindré present molts estius.
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January 1, 2025No l'he pogut acabar, és suuuper descriptiu i francament explica cada cosa poc interessant.... Em fa por perquè fa anys que vull llegir Quadern Gris però de mentres tot el que llegeixo de Pla em costa moltíssim acabar-ho... Serà que soc tonta?
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