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Josep Pla is Catalonia’s foremost twentieth-century prose writer. He witnessed and wrote about some of the twentieth-century’s most notable events including the Spanish Civil War and the foundation of the state of Israel. Due to a lack of translations of his work he is only now being discovered by the international audience and will soon join the ranks of major realist writers in world literature.
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Josep Pla, Joan Ramon Resina teases out the writer’s deep-seated intellectual concerns and challenges the assumption of Pla as an anti-intellectual. Resina condenses Pla’s forty-seven volumes of work, including travel books, narrative fiction, and history, into eleven thematic units: including time, memory, perception, life, religion, metaphysics, utopia, and self-delusion. Resina acutely explores the writer’s authorial gaze and invites the reader to see the world through the eyes of one of the most underappreciated observers and writers of the twentieth-century.
Sommario
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1. Journalism as Literary Praxis
Chapter 2. Journalism on the High End
Chapter 3.
The Gray Notebook: Between Chronicle and Memoir
Chapter 4. Difficulty of the Novel
Chapter 5. Rural Roots of Catalan Modernity
Chapter 6. The Catalan Landscape Seen As a Painting
Chapter 7. Remembering the Region
Chapter 8. Shipwrecks with Monsters
Chapter 9. A
Sui Generis Liberal
Chapter 10. Of Women and Days
Chapter 11. Encroaching Death
Works Cited
Index
Info autore
Joan Ramon Resina is a professor in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures as well as the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University.
Riassunto
In Josep Pla, Joan Ramon Resina teases out the writer's deep-seated intellectual concerns and challenges the assumption of Pla as an anti-intellectual.
