PRIVATE LIFE

Private Life holds up a mirror to the moral corruption in the interstices of the Barcelona high society Sagarra was born into. Boudo irs of demimonde tramps, card games dilapidating the fortunes of milquetoast aristocrats - and how they scheme to conceal them - fad ing manors of selfish scions, and back rooms provided by social-climbing seamstresses are portrayed in vivid, sordid, and literary d etail. The novel, practically a roman-à-clef for its contemporaries, was a scandal in 1932. The 1960's edition was bowdlerized by Fr anco's c...[Read more]