{"product_id":"josep-pla-9781487501846","title":"Josep Pla","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosep 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eJosep Pla, \u003c\/i\u003eJoan 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359450202455,"sku":"9781487501846","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487501846.jpg?v=1754124686","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/josep-pla-9781487501846","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}