Cartas de lejos / Letters from Afar
Travel , 2016
Destino
Pages: 288
The splendid articles in which Pla captured the timeless essence of Europe.
Letters from Afar is the result of Josep Pla’s travels as a young man through France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, and the Nordic countries, during his time as a foreign press correspondent. Pla was not particularly interested in news reporting; rather, he sought to write literary, descriptive, and subjective chronicles with a fundamentally lyrical content. Though time has radically altered the lifestyles and structures of this Europe, the beauty of these articles remains untouched.