Death in Spring
Death in Spring

Author: Mercè Rodoreda

Publisher: Open Letter Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1934824119

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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.

The Time of the Doves
The Time of the Doves

Author: Mercè Rodoreda

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 1986-10-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780915308750

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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.

Camellia Street
Camellia Street

Author: Mercè Rodoreda

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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In the war-torn, disoriented Barcelona of the 1940s and 1950s, Cecélia displays strength in the face of male brutality.

The Selected Stories of Mercè Rodoreda
The Selected Stories of Mercè Rodoreda

Author: Mercè Rodoreda

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781934824313

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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
Garden by the Sea

Author: Mercè Rodoreda

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781948830089

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A Gatsby-esque novel about Spain in the 1920s on the eve of the Spanish Civil War

Mercè Rodoreda
Mercè Rodoreda

Author: M. Isidra Mencos

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780810850002

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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.

War, So Much War
War, So Much War

Author: Mercè Rodoreda

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781940953229

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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.

A Broken Mirror
A Broken Mirror

Author: Merc_ Rodoreda

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780803239630

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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.