by Josep Pla · labutxaca · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496863842
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«La vida amarga» is Josep Pla's collection of short stories, published by labutxaca in paperback (592 pages, in Catalan).
Twenty-four stories in which Josep Pla turns into narrative his experiences as a young journalist traveling through Europe in the 1920s. The texts go from Barcelona to Madrid and then through several countries: France, England, Portugal, Italy and Germany, always with a detailed observation of the people and the life around them.
In its definitive form it appeared in 1966 as the sixth volume of Josep Pla's Complete Works. The volume includes an author's preface on narrative and journalism.
For readers of Catalan literature and of short fiction set in interwar Europe.
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.
