However, it is not clear if this is generally known, at least by the young people, as the blacksmith tells him not to tell anyone. She also has lost her mother – she hanged herself.Īccording to the blacksmith (who later claims to be the narrator’s biological father), when you are born in this village you get a ring, a plaque and a tree. His new stepmother is only sixteen years old and seems to do very little. When his father remarried, the narrator claims to have heard his mother howling outside their window. His mother had a strange habit (many of the people in this book seem to have strange habits) of howling outside the window of newly-weds. His mother is dead and his father has remarried. Our unnamed narrator seems to live a fairly solitary life. The other aspect of this novel which is both threatening and omnipresent are the people or, more particularly, their behaviour, their customs and their rituals. While Nature is not generally horrifying, it is threatening and omnipresent. It is set in a remote village and narrated by a fourteen-year old boy. If you have read any other novels by Mercè Rodoreda, you will find that they tend to have a more urban setting. Home » Catalonia » Mercè Rodoreda » La mort i la primavera (Death in Spring) Mercè Rodoreda: La mort i la primavera (Death in Spring)
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