by Josep Pla · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423310784
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«Viaje en autobús» is the novel by Josep Pla, published by Destino in paperback (220 pages, in Spanish).
The book follows a hundred-kilometre bus journey in which the narrator observes the passengers, the landscapes and the small scenes that arise during the trip. Between humour and poetry, Pla builds a costumbrista and lucid portrait of a Spain and an era, with deep reflections on life and human character drawn from the everyday.
«Viaje en autobús», published in 1980, is number 107 in the Destinolibro collection from Destino and the eighth title in the Biblioteca Josep Pla (Áncora y Delfín).
For readers of Spanish costumbrista fiction and followers of Josep Pla: a brief, ironic and poetic sample of his view 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.
