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Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary detail. The novel, practically a roman-à-clef for its contemporaries, was a scandal in 1932. The 1960's edition was bowdlerized by Franco's censors. Part Lampedusa, part Genet, this translation will bring an essential piece of 20th-century European literature to the English-speaking public.
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Private Life, Josep Maria de Sagarra
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
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- Titel
- Private Life
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Josep Maria de Sagarra
- Verlag
- Archipelago Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 493
- ISBN10
- 091467126X
- ISBN13
- 9780914671268
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Klassiker, 20. Jahrhundert, Katzen, Spanische Literatur, Spanien
- Bewertung
- 3,65 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudoirs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fading manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary detail. The novel, practically a roman-à-clef for its contemporaries, was a scandal in 1932. The 1960's edition was bowdlerized by Franco's censors. Part Lampedusa, part Genet, this translation will bring an essential piece of 20th-century European literature to the English-speaking public.