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- Primera volada (1897-1919) - "First
Flight"
- Cartes de lluny (1920-1938) -
"Letters from afar"
- Aigua de mar (1939-1947) - "Sea Water"
- Coses vistes (1948-1965) - "Things I have seen"
- Notes de capvesprol (1966-1981) -
"The 'Evening Sea Breeze' Notes"
Aigua de mar (1939-1947) - Sea Water
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Martí Farreras, Jaume Vicens Vives, Xavier Montsalvatge, Néstor
Luján, Josep Vergés, Josep Pla, Ignasi Agustí, Carles Sentís, Ribes
(son), Ribes (father), unknown, Muntañola, in front of the the
editorial department of Revista Destino. Barcelona, 1945. Fundació
Josep Pla, col. Josep Vergés. |
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Josep Pla in La Marineda. Calella de Palafrugell, 1940. Fundació
Josep Pla, col. Josep Vergés. |
Feeling burdened by past
political events and the European war, Pla lived for some years in a sort of
inner exile in different locations on the Costa Brava (Fornells, L’Escala,
Cadaqués etc.). Those were years of meditation, of searching for a sense of the
identity, of misanthropy, of finding his sole consolation in the landscape. Pla
became consciously settled, voluntarily isolated. He wanted to talk to the
simplest villagers: the fishermen, the farmers, the craftsmen. He travelled all
over the country, on foot, by coach or by train. Little by little, the view of
the landscape delighted him and transmitted to him some sort of sensual
pantheism, without any religious sense, which was transformed into enthusiasm
for reality. In the literature he produced during those years, he emphasised the
discovery of the closest reality, the landscape and the sea; everything narrated
with a marked subjective accent which shows the beginning of his brilliant
literary maturity.
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Josep Pla in the editorial department of Revista Destino.
Barcelona, 1942.
Fundació Josep Pla, col. Josep Vergés. |
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Ignasi Agustí with Josep Pla in front of the editorial department of Revista
Destino. Barcelona, 1942. Fundació Josep Pla, col. Lluïsa
Sadurní |
In 1940 he started to contribute regularly to the weekly
magazine “Destino” becoming one of its most important promoters and
ideologues. Those were difficult years of collaboration with the new regime and
years of self-criticism. He made his living from literature and journalism alone.
Some assigned work, biographical books and travel books were published at that
time. He gave up the project of becoming a writer in Spanish. From the platform
which the magazine “Destino” offered him, Pla slowly rediscovered
Catalan readers and once more came into contact with all sectors of Catalan
culture. As soon as the censure let him, he started publishing books in Catalan
again, the language in which they had been conceived and first written.
| 1939 |
Once the civil war has finished
he becomes one of the provisional directors of “La Vanguardia”
(January- April). He moves to Fornells (Begur). His relationship with
Adi Enberg comes to an end. |
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| 1940 |
He begins his weekly
contribution to the magazine “Destino” (till 1976). He lives
in L’Escala. He enters into a relationship with Aurora. |
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1940
1946 |
His work Historia de la
Segunda República Española (The History of the Second Spanish
Republic) is published in Spanish. In addition, the following works are
published: Costa Brava. Guía general y verídica (Costa Brava.
General and Truthful Guidebook), Las ciudades del mar (The Cities
of the Sea), Viaje en autobús (A Journey by Bus), Rusiñol y
su tiempo (Rusiñol and his Times), Humor, honesto y vago (Humour,
Lazy and Honest), El pintor Joaquín Mir (The Artist Joaquín Mir),
La huída del tiempo (The Escape of Time), Un señor de
Barcelona (A Man from Barcelona), and Vida de Manolo (Manolo’s
Life). |
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| 1943 |
He starts a weekly contribution
to the “Diario de Barcelona”. |
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| 1944 |
His father dies. |
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| 1946 |
He lives in Cadaqués. He
starts his relationship with Consuelo. |
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1946
1947 |
Cartes de lluny (Letters
from afar), Viatge a Catalunya (Trip to Catalonia) and Cadaqués
are republished in Catalan. |
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| 1947 |
VHe lives between L’Escala and
Llofriu.
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