These words are laced with irony. The person uttering them is Natalia, the first-person narrator-protagonist of La pla(a del Diamant (1962), who is seeking employment as a domestic servant in a…
The works of Merce Rodoreda have been thoroughly studied from a variety of perspectives,
yet not against the historical and sociological backdrop of their time. This essay attempts to
reassess her…
The present thesis is a study of how body and space interrelate in the novel La Placa del Diamant (1962) by the Catalan writer Merce Rodoreda (1908-1983). I will in the following argue that these r…
AbstractIn Merce Rodoreda’s widely acclaimed, first-person narrative La Placa del Diamant (1962), language provides the main sociocultural frame and functions as the primary means of characterization…