The Garden Across the Border

Mercè Rodoreda's Fiction

• Author(s): Kathleen McNerney, Nancy Vosburg,
• Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
• Pages: 259
• ISBN_10: 0945636636
  ISBN_13: 9780945636632
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / Spanish & Portuguese ,

Description:... 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.