Robert Robert

"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: tableauLength: 1, 700 wordsTranslated from Catalan by Bubba López de Górgolas