Private Life

Private Life

Современная русская и зарубежная проза

Автор: Sagarra Josep Maria de

Язык: английский

Год: 2015

Издатель: Archipelago

ISBN: 978-0-914671-27-5

Переводчик: Mary Ann Newman

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Аннотация

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.