by Josep Pla · Edicions 62 · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475305622
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«El carrer estret» is the novel by Josep Pla published by Edicions 62 in hardback (238 pages, in Catalan).
The novel follows a veterinarian newly arrived in Torrelles, a small imaginary town in contemporary Catalonia. Through the voice of his cook Francisqueta, the narrator portrays the routine of the street, the banality of everyday life and the solitude of anonymous characters, between costumbrismo and neorealism.
Work that won the Premi Joanot Martorell in 1951. This 1984 edition belongs to the Història de la Literatura Catalana collection.
For readers of twentieth-century Catalan literature interested in costumbrismo and in the portrayal of everyday life.
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.
