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This first post of the year is dedicated to "Broken Mirror", probably the most complete work of Rodoreda. Written in full maturity, collect all the hallmarks of his narrative, after forty years of experience. It is a novel full of symbolism, in which the characters are treated with a lot of depth, making their secrets 24 kitchen and their misery the thread of the work. Although, as usual, the protagonist of the novel is a woman, the appearance of many other characters make "Broken Mirror" a choral novel, 24 kitchen which differs from the previous novels like " Diamond Square "," 24 kitchen Camellia Street 24 kitchen "or" Aloma ". Also unlike these, here is the story told in the first person, but in the third. This distancing aware of the history that makes the narrator and the importance given to the psychology of the characters make the historical and environmental context -the time in the city of Barcelona are not a central plan. However, Barcelona will see a "Broken Mirror" is basically 24 kitchen the bourgeois city, Sant Gervasi of the beginning of the century and the Lyceum, although the appearance of characters from different social extract also allow us to capture some details 24 kitchen ways of life of the working class.
The novel begins with the rapid rise of social Goday Teresa. Daughter of a fishmonger's Boqueria market, married Nicholas Rovira, a rich old widow who soon leave, 24 kitchen but not before having 24 kitchen covered jewelry.
Mr. Nicholas fell in love with Teresa at the Lyceum: I had known seeing it go hand in hand with a friend, from the terrace of the Lyceum. Mother Teresa had a fish stall in the Boqueria.
Fontanella and threw down the street, Portal de l'Angel, turn right. The horses were trotting and wheels, red and black, freshly varnished, circling, light, Passeig de Gràcia up.
The Liceu is the eternal symbol of bourgeois society, living in a fallen world and endogamic, where everyone knows everyone else. One world, the beginning of the century bourgeois full of codes and customs which now seem a bit archaic ...
Fashion 20s Teresa wore a hat with feathers of paradise. "What beautiful 24 kitchen feathers," said Valldaura placing him next. "Does that mean you do not laugh?" Teresa was much joy and all the men turned to look at her. He would grab his arm, but rethought: Barcelona could not do those things. 24 kitchen
He was accompanied to the door. On the landing, Teresa 24 kitchen skirts and attached himself down before the first step turned his head and smiled with an angelic smile. "It 24 kitchen made me no kiss on the hand or at the entrance or exit. What a fool! "Thought going down the stairs.
At the same time, however, that modern bourgeoisie also looked to be at least somewhat European. The protagonists 24 kitchen of "Broken Mirror", for example, have traveled the continent and have been in cities like Paris or Vienna. 24 kitchen Moreover, the appearance of the sport is another example of this character. 24 kitchen At the beginning of the century the sport quickly spread among classes Barcelona. The tennis was all the rage, and created many tennis clubs in areas where resided bourgeoisie: the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona, Sant Gervasi Tennis Club, Tennis Club Health or the photo, the the Hill Tennis Club.
The Valldaura, like many other members of the bourgeoisie, soon abandoned 24 kitchen their mansions and palaces of the old town, to settle in Sant Gervasi, looking healthy and peaceful atmosphere that was not possible in the wet streets 24 kitchen narrow, crowded center. In addition, the spread of the automobile allowed the gap between the city and the upper comfort.
Valldaura said: "I take the woman in Paris, but because I fear that Barcelona is very longing. If you can not get used to living abroad leave the race. I hope that you, with time, I looked like a tower and me could go fixing 24 kitchen my taste. "
That same day went to see Valldaura and fell in love: at the top of Sant Gervasi, a half street, next to a field, 24 kitchen surrounded by a large garden at the rear side beyond an esplanade became forest.
So I got out of the car Teresa remained so stop only had instinctively say, "My God, like a castle!" At the foot of the gate began Caminal a very wide Castano