Private life
a novel
by Josep Maria de Sagarra
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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: a novel
2015, Archipelago
in English
- First Archipelago Books edition.
091467126X 9780914671268
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"Originally published as Vida Privada by Llibreria Catalònia, 1932 Barcelona"--Title page verso.
Translation from the Catalan of: Vida privada.
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