La vida lenta

by Josep Pla

Tres diarios inéditos de Josep Pla. Un acontecimiento editorial. Imprescindible para los lectores del autor de El cuaderno gris. La obra de Josep Pla se acerca en muchas ocasiones al diario, como El cuaderno gris oNotas para Silvia. Las investigaciones en los archivos de Josep Pla han permitido localizar muy recienteme nte pequeñas libretas en las que se conservan diarios de este tipo, los correspondientes a 1956, 1957 y 1964. La información que contienen permite acceder a la vida cotidiana del escritor ampurdanés en unos años capitales de su trayectoria literaria, y al mismo tiempo comprobar cómo concebía la escritura, como una tabla de salvación a la que recurría con frecuencia. Edición de Xavier Pla.

416 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Josep 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.

Reviews

[Miquelet · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pla és fantàstic i prolífic
potser massa
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