Coses vistes / Cosas vistas
Biography / Memoirs , 1925
Destino
Pages: 264
The first important book Pla wrote was Coses vistes, whose first version appeared in 1925 and where his fondness for detail in narration is already clearly evident. As he says in his prologue: ‘To be understood, one must respect reality and truth, considered as characteristics of an objectivity shared by millions and millions of human beings. This objectivity will have a more or less marked life depending on the care taken in the handling of details and, ultimately, on the resources available to resolve the anguished urgency that nouns seem to have to be determined and described with the exact, precise, well-fitted adjective.