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Loading... Espejo Roto (original 1991; edition 1985)by Rodoreda Merce
Work InformationA Broken Mirror by Mercè Rodoreda (Author) (1991)
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In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Mercè 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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)849.9354Literature French Provençal and Catalan literature Catalan literature Fiction 1900-1945 1945-2000LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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"Of the vanity, the hatred, the shards of love, all that was left was dust and a sad spectacle of splendor and forgetfulness." ( )