La enorme personalidad de Josep Pla—sin duda alguna uno de los prosistas más importantes del siglo XX—tiene muy cultivada una importante faceta humorística. El escritor de talento, el observador, maneja en Humor honesto y vago con extraordinaria destreza la difícil y rara cualidad de un humorismo sano e ingenioso. Del amor al fútbol, pasando por la teoría de la propina, los perros, los gatos, lo que le puede suceder cuando se naufraga, hasta la cultura de los lenguados, Pla envuelve todos los temas con una prosa atractiva. En este libro, de uno de los más inteligentes cultivadores de las letras periodísticas españolas, la amenidad, apoyada a menudo en el diálogo, es espléndida.
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Josep Pla i Casadevall (known as José Pla in Spanish) (March 8, 1897, Palafrugell, Girona - April 23, 1981, Llofriu, Girona) was a Catalan journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, England, Germany and Russia, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan. The most important characteristics of the “planian” style are simplicity, irony, and clarity. His works show a subjective and colloquial view, “anti-literary”, in which he stresses, nevertheless, an enormous stylistic effort by calling things by their names and “coming up with the precise adjective”, one of his most persistent literary obsessions. Pla lived completely dedicated to writing. The extent of his Obres Completes - Complete Works (46 volumes and nearly 40,000 pages), which is a collection of all his journals, reports, articles, essays, biographies and both long and short novels. His liberal-conservative thought, skeptic and uncompromising, filled with irony and common sense, keeps sounding contemporary, completely current, even though it seems to contradict the current cultural establishment same as it did with its completely opposed antecessor. His books remain in print and both Spanish and Catalan critics have unanimously recognized him as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
