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Mercè Rodoreda

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born

October 10, 1908 in Barcelona, Spain

died

April 13, 1983

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí was a Spanish / Catalan novelist.

She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period. Her novel "La plaça del diamant" ('The diamond square', translated as 'The Time of the Doves', 1962) has become the most acclaimed Catalan novel of all time and since the year it was published for the first time, it has been translated into over 20 languages. It's also considered by many to be best novel dealing with the Spanish Civil War.

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Books by Mercè Rodoreda

Average rating: 3.73 · 925 ratings · 114 reviews · 27 distinct works

	The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda, David H. Rosenthal (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 419 ratings — published 1962 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Mirall trencat 3.77 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 1985 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda, Martha Tennent (Translator) 3.57 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Aloma 3.41 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1936 — 6 editions	My rating:
	My Christina and Other Stories by Mercè Rodoreda, David H. Rosenthal (Translation) 3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1967 — 3 editions	My rating:
	La Plaza del Diamante & La Calle de Las Camelias 3.56 avg rating — 25 ratings	My rating:
	Camellia Street by Mercè Rodoreda, David H. Rosenthal (Translator) 3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Selected Stories 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	La plaça del Diamant by Mercè Rodoreda, Joan Sales (Foreword) 3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1962	My rating:
	Colometa 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2007	My rating:

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Quotes by Mercè Rodoreda

“And I got a strong feeling of the passage of time. Not the time of clouds and sun and rain and the moving stars that adorn the night, not spring when its time comes or fall, not the time that makes leaves bud on branches and then tears them off or folds and unfolds and colors the flowers, but the time inside me, the time you can't see but it molds us. The time that rolls on and on in people's hearts and makes them roll along with it and gradually changes us inside and out and makes us what we'll be on our dying day.”
― Mercè Rodoreda, The Time of the Doves

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