Kathleen McNerney

Nancy Vosburg

The Garden across the Border begins with a general introduction to Merce Rodoreda's life and work, an orientation to the collection itself, and a brief chronology by Kathleen McNerney. The first three essays deal with La placa del Diamant, Rodoreda's best-known and widely translated novel. Enric Bou considers the various kinds of exile Rodoreda underwent: political, geographic, linguistic, and personal. Patricia Hart compares the novel with Francesc Betriu's 1982 film. Neus Carbonell, using Julia Kristeva's theories of the symbolic order and interpretations of the biblical myth of origin, relates the questions of identity to the absence of the mother and the imposition of silence. Several essays deal with Rodoreda's lesser-known novels. Donna McGiboney also uses the theories of Kristeva but to examine La mort i la primavera. Elizabeth Scarlett discusses Jardi vora el mar and Mirall trencat, particularly with regard to Rodoreda's well-known flower imagery. Janet Perez deals with Mirall trencat as a gothic novel. Gonzalo Navajas addresses Mirall trencat as well, using a postmodern approach. In her study of El carrer de les camelies, Kathleen Glenn returns to the picaresque novel. There are two studies of Rodoreda's prewar novels. Joan Ramon Resina pinpoints the surprising fact that Crim is a parodic reflection of the detective novel. Randolph Pope's scrutiny of the two versions of Aloma leads him to conclude that the second constitutes a kind of censorship of the first. Viatges i flors is a transition piece in Rodoreda's work. It is a series of vignettes written in lyrical prose. Nancy Vosburg explores metaphors of rootedness, exile, displacement, and wandering in contrast with enclosure, protection, and imprisonment. The rest of the essays focus on Rodoreda's short stories. Josep Miguel Sobrer concentrates on the male protagonists in three stories; he sees a duality between women and men. Ana Rueda goes back into the development of fantastic fiction to explain Rodoreda who crafts, she claims, a modern fantasy. Emilie Bergmann isolates a specific historical period - 1938 - to study the development of Rodoreda's early fiction. And, in concentrating on a single story, "La salamandra," Elizabeth Rhodes brings together many of the constants.

Mercè Rodoreda's Fiction

The Garden Across the Border

A Critical Study

Tirant Lo Blanc Revisited

Francisco Ugarte

Michael Ugarte

This accessible introduction to the history and civilization of Spain is an excellent vehicle for introducing intermediate or advanced students to Spanish civilization and culture. The sixth edition retains the solid cultural and historical coverage from previous editions, while adding new information about contemporary Spain and new and revised writing and research topics.

España y su civilización

The volume gives an excellent overall view of Rodoreda's poetry in the original and in translation, her short stories and novels. A completely annotated, cross-indexed bibliography of the critical work on Rodoreda, accompanied by an analysis of the current state of criticism on her work is included.

The Words and Works of Mercè Rodoreda

Voices and Visions

A guide to understanding the works of Marquez for students as well as initiated nonspecialists in literature. It will be especially useful for American readers since an effort has been made to acquaint them with the society out of which the writer comes and which he describes in his work. 5x7". Paper edition, $10.95 (unseen). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Understanding Gabriel García Márquez

Carolyn L. Galerstein

This annotated bio-bibliographical guide covers women writers of Spain, including special entries on those writing in Catalan and Galician, from the 14th century to the present.

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