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Un amor de Josep Pla en el Canadell
Catalan
296 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1985
About the author
Josep Pla
228 books126 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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April 7, 2023
un recull preciós. i llegir-lo a calella ho fa encara més únic. el josep pla, però, un cabrón.
September 28, 2025
«Però em sembla que el teu destí és, en efecte, arribar sempre tard.
Però et segueixo esperant.»
M'encanta llegir correspondències, però aquest ha estat una mica 'sin más'.
Però et segueixo esperant.»
M'encanta llegir correspondències, però aquest ha estat una mica 'sin más'.
October 6, 2026
l’he llegit avui a la biblioteca entre tasca i tasca. pf crec que és l’únic que puc dir. pintava bé pro fa una mica d’angúnia i la traducció? pf.
August 17, 2024
la idea del llibre és perfecta, josep pla l’espatlla una mica
April 25, 2016
Entrañable. cartas preciosas. Entre lilian y Josep pla. muchos paralelismos con mi vida... me trasladaba al canadell, al amor imposible...a la diferencia de edad, al cariño, a la ilusión por lo imposible...
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