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PRIVATE LIFE : A Novel /Translated from the Catalan by Mary Ann Newman.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: New York Archipelago Books 2015/01/01Edition: 1Description: 493ISBN:
  • 9780914671268
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • F SAG/PR
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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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