Josep Pla

Josep Pla is Catalonias foremost twentieth-century prose writer. He witnessed and wrote about some of the twentieth-centurys most notable events including the Spanish Civil War and the foundation of the state of Israel. Due to a lack of translations of his work he is only now being discovered by the international audience and will soon join the ranks of major realist writers in world literature. In Josep Pla, Joan Ramon Resina teases out the writers deep-seated intellectual concerns and challenges the assumption of Pla as an anti-intellectual. Resina condenses Plas forty-seven volumes of work, including travel books, narrative fiction, and history, into eleven thematic units: including time, memory, perception, life, religion, metaphysics, utopia, and self-delusion. Resina acutely explores the writers authorial gaze and invites the reader to see the world through the eyes of one of the most underappreciated observers and writers of the twentieth-century.