before and after in the public consideration of Pla, much more than as a journalist, as the best narrator of contemporary Catalan literature. The success of the criticism and publicity of this work convinced Vergés to continue publishing the complete work, which has reached volume XLVI, with unpublished manuscripts (such as his Notas para un diario, written in the mid-1960s), not free from controversy, by the supposed amendments and manipulations to which Vergés himself was subjected (apparently, in order to suppress certain obscene passages). Later Keerl, his heir, became much more preoccupied with economically exploiting the documents than putting them at the disposal of investigators or the Josep Pla Foundation. Even though he did not write plays, his life and work inspired various significant works after his death, among which are: Ara que els ametllers ja estan batuts (Now that the almond trees have been knocked down) 1990, in which Josep Maria Flotats creates a portrait of Pla through a collage of his texts. Also La increíble historia del Dr. Floït & Mr. Pla (1997), a production by Els Joglars, which recreates the work of Robert Louis Stevenson where the characters Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are, respectively, a Catalan industrialist obsessed with wealth and, on the other side, an educated and indulgent writer which personifies the opposed values of industrial bourgeoisie, based on Pla. His liberal-conservative thought, sceptical and uncompromising, filled with irony and common sense, still resounds today even though it seems to contradict the current cultural establishment the same as it did the previous establishment. His books remain in print, and both Spanish and Catalan critics have unanimously recognised him as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Since 1968, the Josep Pla Award has been given in his honour, for works written and published in Catalan. References Bibliography Josep Pla, "Life Embitters", translated by Peter Roland Bush. Archipelago Books, New York, 2015. Josep Pla Foundation: Biography, List of Complete Works, etc. (in Catalan, Spanish, English and French.) Espada, Arcadi: Josep Pla. Editorial Omega, Barcelona, 2004, (in Spanish). (A biography of the writer, based on the reading and interpretation of his Complete Works). Josep Pla, Cristina Badosa, Lletra UOC. Valentí Puig, Introduction to The Gray Notebook, NYRB Classics, New York, 2014. External links Page about Josep Pla, from the Association of Catalan Language Writers. . Josep Pla Foundation Essay on Josep Pla by Valerie Miles