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"A classic Catalan work about love, family, and class during the Spanish Civil war. Spain, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Lluís de Brocà i de Ruscalleda eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of intrigue. But the lady of Castel de Olivo--a beautiful widow with a shadowy past--puts a high price on her affections. In Barcelona, Trini Milmany struggles to raise Lluís's son on her own, letters from the front her only solace. With bombs falling as fast as the city's morale, she leaves to spend the winter with Lluís's brigade on a quiet section of the line. But even on "dead" fronts the guns do not stay silent for long. Trini's decision will put her family's fate in the hands of Juli Soleràs, an old friend and a traitor of easy conscience, a philosopher-cynic locked in an eternal struggle with himself. Joan Sales, a combatant in the Spanish Civil War, distilled his experiences into a timeless story of thwarted love, lost youth, and crushed illusions. A thrilling epic that has drawn comparison with the work of Dostoyevsky and Stendhal, Uncertain Glory is a homegrown counterpart to classics such as Homage to Catalonia and For Whom the Bell Tolls"--… (más)
Me abre la puerta a las relecturas: Xavier Benguerel (El testament), Villalonga (Bearn) y Rodoreda (Mirall trencat). Placer anticipado sólo de pensarlo. "És curiós com unes discussions tan interminables i tan idiotes podien apassionar-nos en aquell temps; ens passàvem les hores en aquell antre segurs que allí forjàvem el futur del món i que l'univers trontollava suspés del que decidíssim. Que n'érem d'enzes. Qui sap si el que hi tocava més, a la seva manera, era el xarcuter extremeny, que escoltava bocabadat aquelles coses per a ell imcomprensibles i al capdavall, movent el cap, murmurava: "Mejor haríais ingresando todos en el partido radical"." ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Above all, one must adopt a doctor's precaution and never check a pulse before one is sure it is the patient's pulse and not one's own... Virgilius Haufniensis (Copenhagen 1844)
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
"The uncertain glory of an April day..." (A Confession by the Author)
At the end of 1956, when I finally managed to fulfill my dream and leave the suffocating political, literary and moral atmosphere in France's Spain to find refuge in the freedom of Paris, my individual act of rupture soon took a more ambitious, less selfish turn. (Truth against the red lie and the black)
Joan Sales drew closely on his own experience of fighting in the Spanish Civil War when he began writing Uncertain Glory in 1948 in Barcelona, after nine years of exile in Haiti. (Translator's Note)
I am in excellent health, but as full of grumbles as a sickly child.
Citas
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Because Thy Glory is our end. (A Confession by the Author)
The present renaissance of narrative in the language forged by Ramon Llull would have been impossible without them. (Truth against the red lie and the black)
"A classic Catalan work about love, family, and class during the Spanish Civil war. Spain, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Lluís de Brocà i de Ruscalleda eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of intrigue. But the lady of Castel de Olivo--a beautiful widow with a shadowy past--puts a high price on her affections. In Barcelona, Trini Milmany struggles to raise Lluís's son on her own, letters from the front her only solace. With bombs falling as fast as the city's morale, she leaves to spend the winter with Lluís's brigade on a quiet section of the line. But even on "dead" fronts the guns do not stay silent for long. Trini's decision will put her family's fate in the hands of Juli Soleràs, an old friend and a traitor of easy conscience, a philosopher-cynic locked in an eternal struggle with himself. Joan Sales, a combatant in the Spanish Civil War, distilled his experiences into a timeless story of thwarted love, lost youth, and crushed illusions. A thrilling epic that has drawn comparison with the work of Dostoyevsky and Stendhal, Uncertain Glory is a homegrown counterpart to classics such as Homage to Catalonia and For Whom the Bell Tolls"--
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"És curiós com unes discussions tan interminables i tan idiotes podien apassionar-nos en aquell temps; ens passàvem les hores en aquell antre segurs que allí forjàvem el futur del món i que l'univers trontollava suspés del que decidíssim. Que n'érem d'enzes. Qui sap si el que hi tocava més, a la seva manera, era el xarcuter extremeny, que escoltava bocabadat aquelles coses per a ell imcomprensibles i al capdavall, movent el cap, murmurava: "Mejor haríais ingresando todos en el partido radical"." (