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Mercè Rodoreda
This annotated bibliography of one of the best-known Catalan authors selects and comments on 198 critical narrative works, including nine biographical studies. It provides a detailed analysis of the critical perspectives which have been used to analyze Rodoreda's works, referring the reader to the bibliographical entries which best illustrate certain theoretical approaches or themes.
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The Time of the Doves
The Time of the Doves - by Mercè Rodoreda - is the powerfully written story of a naïve shop-tender during the Spanish Civil War and beyond, is a rare and moving portrait of a simple soul confronting and surviving a convulsive period in history. The book has been widely translated, and was made into a film.
Death in Spring
Merce Rodoreda depicts the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town-burying the dead in trees after filling their mouths with cement to prevent their soul from escaping, or sending a man to swim in the river that courses underneath the town to discover if they will be washed away by a flood-through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old boy who must come to terms with the rhyme and reason of this ritual violence, and with his wild, child-like, and teenaged stepmother, who becomes his playmate.
Mercè Rodoreda
"La Plaza del Diamante"de Mercè Rodoreda, es una de las novelas más importantes y bellas publicadas en el siglo XX. Por su construcción del discurso, simbología, pluralidad de experiencias, etc. de ella pueden hacerse diversas lecturas. La que Josefa Buendía hace y propone en este libro tiene como marco la categoría de género, la crítica de la recepción y la crítica literaria feminista. A través de este prisma se comprueba cómo "La Plaza del Diamante" es una obra inacabada, abierta a las quejas, gritos, explicaciones, confidencias de Natalia... para, desde ahí, reflexionar e imaginar la vida de otras muchas Natalias. Su estilo de escritura hablada favorece la interlocución con la protagonista, con los temas que sugiere y los contextos construidos; permite recrear personajes e historias, dando forma y densidad a sus vidas, poniendo contenido en sus sentimientos y pensamientos, reconstruir perfiles y dar sentido a los mundos de los actores que componen y organizan el enredo de la novela. Con este libro sobre la obra de Mercè Rodoreda se rinde homenaje a esta escritora catalana en el centenario de su nacimiento.
Gender, Class, and Nation
Little attention has been paid to Merce Rodoreda (1908-1983) as a modernist writer. This study addresses the relationship of her production with Catalan, Spanish, and European modernism. Foregrounded is Rodoreda's negotiation of the overlapping subjects of gender, class, modes of representation, and national identities. In the first three chapters her pre-Civil War novels Soc una dona honrada?, Un dia de la vida d'un home, and Del que hom no pot fugir are read against key Catalan texts, particularly Eugeni d'Ors', to emphasize debates surrounding modernist aesthetics and models of Catalan national identity. The modernist preoccupation with high versus low literature is developed in Aloma, while El carrer de les Camelies reconfigures the flaneur vis-a-vis the female writer's positioning in the modernist enterprise. The modernist debt to realism and the revindication of early Catalan modernism in the 1970s are examined in Mirall trencat. Christine Arkinstall is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at The University of Auckland.
Mercè Rodoreda : a selected and annotated bibliography (2002-2011)
This bibliography, listed alphabetically by authors of books and articles on Mercè Rodoreda, offers a detailed description of the content of more than two hundred studies on her work. In addition to Rodoreda’s narrative, the last decade has seen many more studies of her theater, poetry, painting, and early journalism. Also included is a comprehensive listing of editions and translations, as well as an index. The intention is to analyze and diffuse the great body of academic production on this worldwide representative of Catalan culture, with the hope that future studies can profit by a reading of pertinent existing scholarship on the subject. There are various kinds of publications, from ...
The Selected Stories of Mercè Rodoreda
Thirty one of Merce Rodoreda's most moving and challenging stories which capture his full range of expression. Moving from quiet literary realism to fragmentary impressionism to dark symbolism, Rodoreda captures the lives of women who are stuck between senseless modernity and suffocating tradition.
Garden by the Sea
A Gatsby-esque novel about Spain in the 1920s on the eve of the Spanish Civil War
War, So Much War
Adri Guinart is leaving Barcelona out of boredom and a thirst for freedom, embarking on a long journey through the backwaters of a rural land that one can only suppose is Catalonia, accompanied by the interminable, distant rumblings of an indefinable war. In vignette-like chapters and with a narrative style imbued with the fantastic, Guinart meets with numerous peculiar characters who offer him a composite, if surrealistic, view of an impoverished, war-ravaged society and shape his perception of his place in the world.
