Josep Pla: seeing the world in the form of articles

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Resina, Joan Ramon 1956- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Toronto ; Buffalo; London University of Toronto Press [2017]
Schriftenreihe:Toronto Iberic 25
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Zusammenfassung:"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. 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. Resina condenses Pla's forty-seven volumes of work, including travel books, narrative fiction, and history, into eleven thematic units: 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."...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index
Beschreibung:xix, 312 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781487501846

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