Private Life

A beautiful and very important book about Catalan society in the first few three decades of the 20th century. Sagarra is one of the best writers of Catalan literature and this translation is very beautiful and accurate and does great justice to Sagarra's language and style.

A brutal portrait of the Barcelona bourgeoisie and the labded classes in their decline. Its main protagonist is the city itself in a sense, its pretensions, its hypocrisies, its self delusion - and its sexual perversions in vivid detail. Private Life has waited too long to be translated, but it has benefitted from this fine translation, which sustains his excoriating prose and its anti- lyricism, extraordinarily well