''The Gray Notebook'' () is a book by the Spanish writer

Josep Pla Josep Pla i Casadevall (; 8 March 1897 – 23 April 1981) was a Spanish journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles i ...

, published in 1966. It is a reworking of his youthful journal from 1918–1920, when he studied law in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

and wanted to become a writer, with added comments written when he was in his 60s and an established writer. It is Pla's most famous work and was published in English translation by Peter Bush in 2014.

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New York Review Books
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gray Notebook 1966 non-fiction books Diaries Books by Josep Pla Catalan-language works