In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Merce 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...
In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Merce Rodoreda shatters that mirror in this, her most ambitious novel, whic...
The Time of the Doves - by Merce Rodoreda - is the powerfully written story of a naive 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.
The Time of the Doves - by Merce Rodoreda - is the powerfully written story of a naive shop-tender during the Spanish Civil War and beyond, ...
Mit ungewöhnlicher Eindringlichkeit schildert der Roman die Lebensgeschichte von Colometa, einer in Traditionen verhafteten jungen Frau, die im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg ihren Mann verliert und gezwungen ist, ihr Leben in die eigene Hand zu nehmen. §Dieser faszinierende Roman machte die katalanische Autorin Mercè Rodoreda weltberühmt. Er wurde in über 20 Sprachen übersetzt und ist heute der Klassiker der katalanischen Literatur. §Mercè Rodoreda (1908 1983) lebte während der Franco-Zeit im französischen Exil und begann erst nach ihrer Rückkehr wieder mit großem Erfolg zu schreiben...
Mit ungewöhnlicher Eindringlichkeit schildert der Roman die Lebensgeschichte von Colometa, einer in Traditionen verhafteten jungen Frau, die im Spani...
Der zerbrochene Spiegel ist ein Roman, in welchem jeder sich in den verliebt, in den er sich nicht verlieben darf, und der, dem es an Liebe fehlt, Liebe zu bekommen sucht, gleichgltig wie: in einer Stunde oder einem Augenblick. Merc Rodoreda
Der zerbrochene Spiegel ist ein Roman, in welchem jeder sich in den verliebt, in den er sich nicht verlieben darf, und der, dem es an Liebe fehlt, Lie...
Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, Death in Spring is one of Merce Rodoreda's most complex and beautifully constructed works. The novel 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 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,...
Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, Death in Spring is one of Merce Rodoreda's most complex and beautifully ...
Featured on Jeff VanderMeer's "Epic List of Favorite Books Read in 2015"
"Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels."--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Rodoreda plumbs a sadness that reaches beyond historic circumstances . . . an almost voluptuous vulnerability."--Natasha Wimmer, The Nation
"It is a total mystery to me why Rodoreda] isn't widely worshipped; along with Willa Cather, she's on my list of authors whose works I intend to have read all of before I die. Tremendous, tremendous...
Featured on Jeff VanderMeer's "Epic List of Favorite Books Read in 2015"
"Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she ...
