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Obra completa (Destino) #4
Sobre París i França
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653 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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About the author
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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August 10, 2011
Com bona part dels volums de l'Obra Completa, els problemes del llibre es basen fonamentalment en la seva dispersió, articles d'interés divers i d'èpoques diferents que tenen com a nexe comú França. Els articles sobre la política francesa i les fronteres naturals són particularment brillants. Més disperses les memòries de la primera estància a París el 1920 i sobrers altres articles. El millor del llibre és que Pla sabé captar la particular idiosincràsia del poble francès, les seves contradiccions, el seu llenguatge revolucionari que amagava un pensament profundament conservador.
January 21, 2016
Una delícia per a francòfils i amants de París (com jo).
December 29, 2024
M´ha agradat força.La part més de tipificació del francès com a persona política m´ha semblat molt de principis del segle XX. Clar que Josep Pla és home del seu temps, no ens oblidem.
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