Un recull de quatre contes, en format àlbum il.lustrat. Explicats amb un estil entranyable, hi apareixen des de bruixes fins a animalets personalitzats, i tot ambientat en uns bells paisatges que són
Un viejo jardinero observa durante seis veranos la vida de una familia rica en una torre junto al mar. Las fiestas se suceden, los amigos excéntricos desfilan, la belleza del jardín parece que les ofrezca el paraiso en la tierra. Pero bajo la alegria empollan realidades que no respetan nada, ni ricos ni pobres, ni señores ni criados: el fracaso del amor y la crudeza del instinto de supervivencia. Autora Catalana
I''ve worked in the literature section for almost eight years, and the beauty of Powell''s is in the opportunity to discover, time and again, an author that you''ve never heard of before, one that sits on a bottom shelf close to the floor gathering dust, and to have this author''s work speak to you in such a profound way that you take it as a sign some kind of god must exist. This is how I feel about Merce Rodoreda. She was Catalan, born in Barcelona in 1909, and lived through the Spanish Civil War, coming out on the losing side. Books in Catalan were burned, and the language was not allowed to be spoken. Set in wartime Spain, The Time of the Doves is the simple story of a young shop girl who struggles just to live and seeks to establish her identity amidst the cruelties of a country at war. Rodoreda''s style of writing is stream of consciousness, words on top of words, and the effect is hypnotic. Her prose is sensual, though not at all in a flowery way; rather, there''s a firmness and physicality in her language which beautifully illuminates the ordinary through the graceful, almost childlike, openness of the narrator. I recommend reading this book in one sitting if you have the chance. May it linger in you as it did in me.
Acaso la mejor novela catalana del siglo, ésta fue publicada en 1966 y profusamente traducida y reeditada. En ella, la sencilla historia de una mujer se carga de una profunda significación al condensar la evocación de toda una forma de vida que agoniza.
"Death in Spring "tells 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 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. Musical and rhythmic, this is truly the work of a writer at the height of her powers.Merce Rodoreda (1908 83) is widely regarded as the most important Catalan writer of the twentieth century.Martha Tennent translates from Spanish and Catalan, and received an NEA translation fellowship for her work on Rodoreda."
A principis dels anys noranta, el director de cinema Agustí Villaronga va intentar rodar una adaptació de la darrera novel·la de Mercè Rodoreda: La mort i la primavera. El mateix Villaronga va fer-ne
Si fins ara coneixíem sobretot la Rodoreda novel·lista, a partir d’aquest Bestiari i altres poemes tant els adults com els lectors més joves podrem acostar-nos també a la seva poesia. Cal celebrar qu
Adrià Guinart té quinze anys quan fuig de casa per anar a la guerra. Però la guerra l’escup. Sense arribar a fer ben bé el soldat, el seu camí per pobles i selves, de la riba del mar a la vora d’un r
