Il progetto neomodernista di Mercè Rodoreda

Il dialogo letterario della scrittrice catalana con la tradizione letteraria europea

Abstract

This article offers a critical review of Mercè Rodoreda’s postwar novels (1962-1980) through the lens of modernism and neomodernism, historiographic and interpretative categories that enable an understanding of the radical nature of her literary project. From the first written novel Jardí vora el mar [Garden by the Sea] to Mirall trencat [A Broken Mirror], and including La plaça del Diamant [In Diamond Square], La mort i la primavera [Death in Spring], and Quanta, quanta guerra… [War, So Much War], Rodoreda shows her (neo)modernist understanding of literature and reality and engages with European and Western culture and literature to redefine the place of Catalan literature within twentieth-century European literary modernity.