Private Life

Autor*innen

• Josep Maria de Sagarra

Parameter

• 493 Seiten
• 18 Lesestunden

• 20. Jahrhundert
• Belletristik
• Geschichte
• Klassiker
• Spanische Belletristik

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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.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Einband: Paperback