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008			140527s2013 nyu 000 0deng
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020			_a9781590176719
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050	0	0	_aPC3941.P54 _bQ8313 2013
082	0	0	_a92 PLA
100	1		_aPla, Josep, 1897-1981
245	1	4	_aThe Gray Notebook _c/ by Josep Pla ; translated by Peter Bush ; introduction by Valenti Puig
260			_aNew York _b: New York Review Books _c, 2013
300			_a638 p. _c; 21 cm.
490	0		_aNew York Review Books Classics
520			_aJosep Pla's, The Gray Notebook , is one of the most colorful and unusual works in modern literature. In 1918, when Pla was in Barcelona studying law, the Spanish flu broke out, the university shut down, and he went home to his parents in coastal Palafrugell. Aspiring to be a writer, not a lawyer, he resolved to hone his style by keeping a journal. In it he wrote about his family, local characters, visits to cafés; the quips, quarrels, ambitions, and amours of his friends; writers he liked and writers he didn't; and the long contemplative walks he would take in the countryside under magnificent skies. Returning to Barcelona to complete his studies, Pla kept up his diary, scrutinizing life in the big city with the same unflagging zest and humor. Pla, one of the great Catalan writers, held on to this youthful journal for close to fifty years, reworking and adding to it, until he finally published The Gray Notebook as both the first volume and the capstone of his collected works. It is a beautiful, entrancing, delightful book -- at once a distillation of the spirit of youth and the work of a lifetime.
600	1	0	_aPla, Josep, 1897-1981
650		0	_aAuthors, Catalan _y--20th century _v--Biography
700	1		_aBush, Peter R., 1946-
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