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Josep Pla

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Born March 8, 1897
Died April 23, 1981 (84 years old)
Palafrugell, Spain
Also known as: Josep Pla i Casadevall
8 books
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6 readers

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Josep Pla i Casadevall, també citat com a José Pla (Palafrugell, 8 de març de 1897-Llufríu, 23 d'abril de 1981), va ser un escriptor i periodista espanyol en llengües catalana i espanyola. La seva original i extensa obra literària, que abasta de forma ininterrompuda sis dècades i més de 30.000 pàgines, va ser essencial en la modernització de la llengua catalana i en la divulgació dels costums i les tradicions locals. Els articles d'opinió, les cròniques periodístiques i els reportatges socials de nombrosos països constitueixen també un testimoni singular de la història del segle XX.

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El quadern gris

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The first part of the book, which begins on March 8, 1918, is a story of family life on the Costa Brava and the coming-of-age story of a young man torn between an old-fashioned ideal of a life of quiet dedication to work and family and the intellectual seductions of European culture. Pla's enthusiasms and uncertainties, friendships and crushes, his reading, the drama and politics and absurdity of family life-we are drawn into all these as we also follow Pla in his wanderings through town, scrutinizing his fellow citizens, or out under the magnificent skies of the still-unspoiled countryside of the coast. In January 1919, Pla returns to Barcelona to complete his studies, and the book's second part paints a hilariously revealing picture of student life. He learns next to nothing from his teachers, a good deal more from the writers and artists he meets in cafés and salons, and most of all from Barcelona itself, with its night life and ramblas, the city of Gaudi and Modernisme, where just outside the city limits the seemingly timeless life of the country still went on as before.

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273 p. ; 19 cm

Fer-se totes les il·lusions possibles

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"«Res em fa il·lusió. Quan em parlen de la felicitat, la cursileria de la paraula em fa rebentar de riure. L'ideal consisteix en fer-se totes les il·lusions possibles i no creure en cap. Decepcionant, depriment, però ¿què hi voleu fer?».