Private life
Subtitle: a novel
By: Josep Maria de Sagarra ; translated from Catalan by Mary Ann Newman
Contributors: Newman, Mary Ann, translator
Edition: First Archipelago Books edition.
Publisher: Archipelago
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9780914671268
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Ethics; Upper class; Families; Corruption; Fiction
Work titles: Vida privada
Description: "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"--
Notes: "Originally published as Vida Privada by Llibreria Catalònia, 1932 Barcelona"--Title page verso.

Translation from the Catalan of: Vida privada.