A major work from Mercè Rodoreda’s early, realistic period, Camellia Street is set in war-torn Barcelona of the s and 50s and tells the story of Cecilia, who, abandoned as an infant, ends up fleeing her adoptive family in favor of a more unsettled life of fire-setting, poverty, one abusive man after another, prostitution, and, eventually, a tenuous note of rebirth. Camellia Street is one of the major novels of Merce Rodoreda, a brilliant Catalan writer whose works are widely read and admired throughout the world. This is the story of Cecelia and of the war-torn, disoriented Barcelona of the s and s/5. Mercè Rodoreda: El carrer de les Camèlies (Camellia Street) This is probably Rodoreda’s best-known novel, recommended by Gabriel García Márquez. It is therefore probably no surprise that it is out of print in English.
Welcome to the Camellia Inn. Complimentary off-street parking, seasonal swimming pool, pass to local health club, massage room, iPads in most room, free Wifi; Feel free to book without any worries. Reservations made for arrival to Decem will also have a 24 hour cancellation for Sunday thru Thursday. Camellia Street, published in , is the starkest of all Rodoreda's works. It chronicles the life and, obliquely, the times of Cecília C., a street-corner prostitute and later a kept woman in numb, exhausted postwar Barcelona. Cecília, a foundling whose name is written on a scrap of paper pinned to her bib, never takes to her adoptive. CAMELLIA STREET BY MERCÈ RODOREDA, TRANSLATED BY DAVID ROSENTHAL. Mercè Rodoreda's Camellia Street is a study in whiplash. Though first released in Catalonia in , the book remains sharply resonant and intimately relatable today to any woman who has ever felt herself apart, numbed by life's vicissitudes even as she finds sweetness in them—any woman "trapped alive," as narrator.
Camellia Street, published in , is the starkest of all Rodoreda’s works. It chronicles the life and, obliquely, the times of Cecília C., a street-corner prostitute and later a kept woman in numb, exhausted postwar Barcelona. Cecília, a foundling whose name is written on a scrap of paper pinned to her bib, never takes to her adoptive parents. Camellia Street is one of the major novels of Merce Rodoreda, a brilliant Catalan writer whose works are widely read and admired throughout the world. This is the story of Cecelia and of the war-torn, disoriented Barcelona of the s and s. Camellia Street is very much indicative of Rodoreda’s lyrical style of prose — even as the plot wanders, following Cecilia as she lives a life devoid of purpose, the captivating way that Rodoreda renders the scenery of Barcelona and the inner workings of Cecilia’s mind make the novel a pleasure to read. David Rosenthal is clearly a masterful translator of the original Catalan — you can see Rodoreda’s pen at work behind his translation; the lyrical way she constructs sentences is.
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