Josep Pla : seeing the world in the form of articles / Joan Ramon Resina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Resina, Joan Ramon, author.

Series:

Toronto Iberic

Toronto Iberic ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pla, Josep, 1897-1981--Criticism and interpretation.

Pla, Josep.

Pla, Josep, 1897-1981.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Journalism as Literary Praxis 3

2 Journalism on the High End 20

3 The Gray Notebook: Between Chronicle and Memoir 42

4 Difficulty of the Novel 67

5 Rural Roots of Catalan Modernity 104

6 The Catalan Landscape Seen as a Painting 122

7 Remembering the Region 147

8 Shipwrecks with Monsters 162

9 A Sui Generis Liberal 187

10 Of Women and Days 231

11 Encroaching Death 261.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index.

ISBN:

1487501846

9781487501846

OCLC:

961006400