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    The Back Room
    The Back Room
    The Back Room
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    The Back Room

    By Robert Robert

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    "The Back Room" is an English translation of "La rebotiga," Catalan journalist Robert Robert's gently ironic account of a desultory evening gathering in the room in back of an apothecary's. Josep Pla, in his diary, calls it the finest piece of writing in Catalan from the so-called Renaixença.

    Genre: tableau
    Length: 1,700 words
    Translated from Catalan by Bubba López de Górgolas

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFario
    Release dateAug 16, 2013
    ISBN9781301988426
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