Mercè Rodoreda è considerata una delle romanzieri catalane più importanti del dopoguerra, celebrata per le sue profonde esplorazioni della psiche umana. La sua opera affronta temi come la memoria, la perdita e la ricerca dell'identità, resi in uno stile di prosa lirico ed evocativo. Rodoreda impiega magistralmente immagini vivide e una sensibile rappresentazione emotiva per creare narrazioni che risuonano profondamente. I suoi significativi contributi l'hanno affermata come una voce vitale nella letteratura catalana, affascinando lettori in tutto il mondo.
Celebrated for its feminist themes, this work by Rodoreda has been restored to print, showcasing her unique storytelling and deep exploration of women's experiences. The narrative delves into the complexities of identity and societal roles, making it a significant contribution to literature. Readers can expect a rich, emotional journey that reflects the author's profound insights and distinctive voice.
Barcelona, early 1930s: Natalia is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful, and she takes his hand. They marry and soon have two children; for Natalia it is an awakening, both good and bad. When Joe decides to breed pigeons, the birds delight his son and daughter - and infuriate his wife. Then the Spanish Civil War erupts, and lays waste to the city and to their simple existence. Natalia remains in Barcelona, struggling to feed her family, while Joe goes to fight the fascists, and one by one his beloved birds fly away. 'The fierce beauty of Rodoreda's writing makes it one of the masterpieces of modern European literature . . . Here the epic struggle is not in the trenches, but in a young woman's fight to understand love and loss and to survive war and hunger' Independent 'An extremely moving love story, which reveals much about the Spanish Civil War as ordinary people had to live it. Merce Rodoreda's artistry is of the highest order' Diana Athill
In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Merc_ Rodoreda shatters that mirror in this, her most ambitious novel, which tells its story in brilliant fragments, a vision reflected and refracted and finally coming together in a richly articulated mosaic of life. Through this Broken Mirror, the reader sees events and characters spanning three generations and composing a kaleidoscopic family history ranging over six decades and turning upon events both intimate and historic?most notably the Spanish Civil War. Opening with Teresa Goday, the lovely young fishmonger?s daughter married to a wealthy old man, the story shifts from one perspective to another, reflecting from myriad angles the founding of a matriarchal dynasty?and its eventual, seemingly inevitable disintegration. A family saga extending from the prosperous Barcelona of the 1870s to the advent of the Franco dictatorship, A Broken Mirror is finally also a novel about the inexorable passing of time.
Death in Springis a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and attempts at rebellion swiftly crushed. When his father dies, he must navigate this oppressive society alone, and learn how to live in a place of crippling conformity. Often seen as an allegory for life under a dictatorship, Death in Springis a bewitching and unsettling novel about power, exile, and the hope that comes from even the smallest gestures of independence.
Una família rica, una casa abandonada, un jardí desolat... Tenia ganes de fer una novel·la on hi hagués de tot això. Mirall trencat és la més profusa de les novel·les de Mercè Rodoreda, un retrat de família al llarg de tres generacions, i un imponent retrat de dona amb la figura de Teresa Goday. Amb el pròleg de l'autora i un epíleg de Marta Nadal.
Aloma és la culminació de la novel·la psicològica, on el tema principal són les relacions entre un home madur i una dona jove. Aquestes relacions solen ser tenses, gairebé impossibles; i la dona, gairebé sempre passiva, n'és la víctima. Després de trenta anys, Mercè Rodoreda va refer l'Aloma de la seva joventut, amb l'experiència acumulada amb els anys, però hi va mantenir aquella prosa evocativa i lírica, amb l'ingenuïtat d'interpretació i d'expressió que la caracteritzen.
Esta es la historia de Adrià Guinart, un adolescente que va a la guerra sin poder librarse de su obsesión por unos ojos femeninos de color violeta. Su trayectoria personal durante la contienda es un auténtico proceso de aprendizaje acerca de la naturaleza humana. La guerra civil es el fondo sobre el que se proyecta la lucha que el protagonista mantiene consigo mismo. La reconocida habilidad de Rodoreda para mostrar la profundidad del ser humano vuelve a brillar aquí en todo su esplendor, y sin ahorrarle al lector una conmovedora visión de la vida cotidiana durante el conflicto bélico
Un vell jardiner observa durant sis estius la vida d'una família rica en una torre vora el mar. Les festes se succeeixen, els amics excèntrics desfilen, la bellesa del jardí sembla que els ofereixi el paradís a la terra. Però sota l'alegria coven realitats que no respecten res, ni rics ni pobres, ni senyors ni criats: el fracàs de l'amor i la cruesa de l'instint de supervivència. Amb un epíleg de Roser Porta.
