by Josep Maria de Sagarra · Plaza & Janés. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401380273
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«Vida privada» is the novel by Josep Maria de Sagarra, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (287 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Barcelona in the 1930s, the novel portrays the social and moral decline of the Catalan upper bourgeoisie through drawing rooms, boardrooms, literary circles and brothels. An unpaid promissory note and the blackmail of a nihilistic gigolo expose a universe of ruined aristocrats, parvenus and gilded «kept women».
Published in Catalan in 1932, it caused a scandal and was censored under Franco. Includes translation, prologue and notes by José Agustín Goytisolo and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.
Recommended for readers of twentieth-century Catalan fiction and for those seeking an ironic portrait of Barcelona high society in the 1930s.
Josep Maria de Sagarra i de Castellarnau was a Catalan-language writer from Barcelona, Catalonia.
