by Josep Pla · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423321834
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«El carrer Estret» is Josep Pla's novel of manners, published by Destino in paperback (282 pages, in Catalan).
The action takes place in Torrelles, a small imaginary town in present-day Catalonia. A veterinarian newly arrived in the village and his cook, Francisqueta, are the eyes through which everyday life is shown: the occupations, relationships and solitude of anonymous characters. Between the sketch of customs and neorealist literature, Pla turns the ordinary into novelistic material.
«El carrer Estret» won the Joanot Martorell Prize for fiction in 1951. This 2003 edition is the ninth and belongs to the El Trident collection, where it is number 10.
Of interest to readers of novels of manners and to those who want to approach Josep Pla's Catalan narrative.
Josep Pla i Casadevall was a Spanish journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan and Spanish.
