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Un berenar a Ginebra
SPAIN · 2013

Un berenar a Ginebra

Ventura Pons
exile literary criticism Franco regime Catalan literature personal secrecy
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Synopsis

In 1973, towards the end of the Franco regime, the famous catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda bumped into the literary critic Josep Maria Castellet in Geneva where she lived exiled and she invited him to tea at her house. The writer was a most discrete person and maintained everything that concerned her wrapped in secrecy. Indeed she herself had become a secret or perhaps, even a maker of secrets. Howev

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