Guided visit
Mercè Rodoreda
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In our Mercè Rodoreda guided tour, we’ll take your students on a journey through the events of the war and post-war period in Barcelona, with a clear objective: to understand Mercè Rodoreda’s literature as, among other things, a formidable testimony to a collective tragedy.
The aim of Itinera Plus and the Mercè Rodoreda Foundation is to preserve her intellectual heritage, disseminate her work and promote studies on the author.
Our guide’s great flexibility will enable your students to make the most of this educational tour, organised according to their level.
With your students, discover the Barcelona of Mercè Rodoreda
With our complete itinerary, your students will discover the fascinating life of Mercè Rodoreda, born in Barcelona’s Sant Gervasi de Cassoles district in 1908. Our guide will tell you the story of this Catalan author, starting with her childhood. Mercè Rodoreda, an only child, grew up in an environment that constantly exuded culture. Her father Andreu Rodoreda, who died during the civil war in a bombingand her mother Montserrat Gurguí were lovers of literature and all the arts.
Your students will learn how Mercè Rodoreda’s work expresses a strong Catalan identity and a female identity that goes against the grain. Since her exile in Geneva, where she settled in 1954 and lived for twenty years, the author has continued to write in her own language: Catalan. This choice is the result of Rodoreda’s lifelong defence of her identity and culture.
Follow the guide: Plaça del Diamant & Mirall Trencat
The itinerary we are proposing is not a cold chronicle of historical facts, anonymous figures or descriptions of geopolitical manoeuvres, but an approach to the feelings of the inhabitants of the flattest city.
We’ll recall the historical facts that help to reconstruct our historical memory, we’ll stroll through the various key points of the Gràcia district, we’ll experience the struggle for survival in the first person, we’ll visit an air-raid shelter and relive the anguish of the bombings, we’ll recall personal anecdotes and literary fragments… We’ll then understand how and why La plaça del Diamant has become an essential literary document.
Come and discover the city from a new angle, learning how Barcelona became the protagonist of her works: La plaça del diamant 1962 and Mirall trencat 1974; the streets of the Gràcia and San Gervasi districts are the places in the city where the writer spent her childhood and youth, before she went into exile, the streets she used every day for more than twenty years and which suddenly disappeared from her horizon.
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