by Josep Pla · labutxaca · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788492549580
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«El quadern gris» is the diary of Josep Pla, published by labutxaca in paperback (752 pages, in Catalan).
Written between March 1918 and November 1919, it is the youthful diary of Josep Pla: at twenty, he abandons medicine, studies law, and enters Noucentista Barcelona. It portrays his native Empordà and life in the capital, with the concerns awakened by the people he meets at the Ateneo Barcelonés.
This diary opens the Obra completa series (Destino), where it occupies volume 1. Josep Pla fixed the definitive version of the diary in 1966.
Readers of twentieth-century Catalan literature and of diaries or memoirs, as well as those who want to approach the figure of Josep Pla.
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.
