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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) - "Seen Things"
- Notes de capvesprol (1966-1981) -
"The 'Evening Sea Breeze' Notes"
Coses vistes (1948-1965) - Seen Things
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Josep Vergés with Josep Pla. London, 1955. Fundació Josep Pla,
col. Josep Vergés. |
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Doctor Josep Trueta with Josep Pla. Oxford, 1955. Fundació Josep
Pla, col. Josep Vergés. |
After a few years of financial
difficulties and voluntary isolation in Empordà, Pla completely accepted the
fact of being a rural property owner. He would not live in Barcelona any more.
However, the magazine “Destino” would still commission some articles
for him to write which allowed him to travel again on a literary pretext: France,
Israel, Cuba, New York, Middle East, South America, Russia. He no longer made
journeys as a correspondent but as a journalistic observer who never lost his
curiosity for the political and social development of the contemporary world.
Furthermore, Pla made good use of his voyages, often made in slow tankers;
writing obsessively, elaborating his books and rewriting patiently what would
later become his Obra Completa (Complete Works).
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After a few editions of bibliophile, he started editing
his books regularly in Catalan in Editorial Selecta (publishers),
which belonged to Josep M. Cruzet. Cruzet would also publish the first
project of Pla’s Complete Works, consisting of 29 volumes (novels,
travel books, narratives, memories etc.) Slowly, he started to inject
morality and a collective dimension into his individual process of
recalling memories. The landscape, the cuisine, the jobs, the great
Catalan people of the century, all sorts of subjects were placed at the
service of literature with the mission of gathering information, to rescue
from oblivion all of Catalonia which was at the point of disappearing. |
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London, 1955. Fundació Josep Pla, col. Edicions Destino. |
| 1948 |
He moves to Mas Pla in Llofriu
for good. |
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| 1949 |
He begins his contribution to Editorial
Selecta (publishers). |
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1950
1956 |
Some of his well-known books
such as El carrer Estret (The Narrow Street), Girona. Un
llibre de records (Girona. A Book of Memories) and Cartes d’Itàlia
(Letters from Italy) are published by Editorial Selecta (publishers). |
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| 1953 |
He travels to Portugal,
València and Madrid. He also travels to Cuba. |
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| 1954 |
He travels to New York. His
contribution to “Diario de Barcelona” comes to an end. |
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| 1955 |
He visits Josep Terradellas,
president of “La Generalitat” in exile, in Paris. He travels
to England. |
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| 1956 |
He starts to edit his Obres
Completes (Complete Works), comprising 20 volumes, in Editorial
Selecta (publishers). He travels to Italy and Greece. |
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| 1957 |
He goes to Israel and South
America. He is awarded the Premi Lletra d’Or (Gold prize for
literature) for his book Barcelona. Papers d’un estudiant (Barcelona.
A student’s papers).
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| 1958 |
He goes to Brazil. He starts the series Homenots
(Great Men) and publishes Israel en los presentes días (Israel in
modern times).
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| 1959 |
He goes to Switzerland. He travels across The Red
Sea, The Gulf of Persia, The Indian Ocean, The Atlantic Ocean, The
Caribbean ending in Valparaíso.
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| 1960 |
He travels to America. He starts to contribute to
“El Correo Catalan” (until 1965).
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| 1962 |
His contribution to Editorial Selecta (publishers)
comes to an end.
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| 1963 |
He travels to the United States.
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| 1964 |
He travels to Puerto Rico, Brazil and Argentina.
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| 1965 |
His mother dies. He travels to Majorca with Baltasar
Porcel.
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