Josep Pla
(Palafrugell, Spain, 1897-Llofriu, id., 1981) Spanish writer in Catalan and Castilian languages.In 1918 he moved to Barcelona to study medicine, which he abandoned shortly after, to finally graduate in law.During those years he frequented the gatherings of the Barcelona Athenaeum, where he met Josep Maria de Sagarra and Eugeni D'Ors, among others.He regularly collaborated in various publications (Las Noticias and La veu de Catalunya) and worked as a press correspondent in several European countries.After the Spanish civil war, he collaborated in the magazine Destino and wrote some works in Spanish.
Josep Pla
Josep Pla's work, very extensive, includes travel chronicles, biographical and historical studies, novels and stories, although his temperament was little given to literary fiction.Enemy of rhetoric and false ornamentation, his style is characterized by its balance and an apparent simplicity, at the service of an acute capacity for observation, so that his highly plastic descriptions are capable of capturing the slightest nuances of reality with unconventional features peppered with picturesqueness.
Among the titles that make up his extensive bibliography, the most notable are Magic Lantern (1926), Letters from afar (1928), Francesc Cambó (1928-1930), Trip to Catalonia (1934), The narrow street (1951) and Contraband (1954).In 1956 he began publishing his Complete Works , headed by his diary The Gray Notebook , a capital title that enshrines his importance as a writer.His latest works include Notes for Sílvia and See Catalunya .
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