A woman whose life will pass between her First Communion, her coming into the world, and her marriage to a man who will make her feel old when he whispers in her ear how much she loves him, and writes in her diary what she feels and feels. She doesn’t feel like she’s going to Liceo and going to Paris, watching life from her balcony like a bored and smug Emma Bovary. Another, a woman in the shadows and fright, who, with the air of looking at me and touching me, comes to life when she speaks of the war and remembers how, among the rubble of the bombing, she looked for her husband to marry him. as clean and tidy as her mother and telling her to stay quiet at home, that she’s an idiot and scumbag and that she’s lucky to have him in her life. And third, in the bed of one of those men (and outside) who fell in love with his charisma and leadership, he’ll explore the political struggle, love, and sexual freedom in college assemblies and imagine a different life for him. for women in his family and for women in the future.
Three women with the same name, Ramona. Three women—grandmother, mother, and daughter—from different generations—what they would call the same Mundeta. Three women and three lives who will share the heartbeat of the same city, Barcelona, during those years from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century.Through a story that begins with the memory of the bombing in Liceu in 1893 and extends to the Second Republic, the Civil War, and the beginning of the re-conquest of freedoms and rights lost, where the dictator is still alive. Three women and three lives living in its pages. Ramona, goodbyefirst novel Montserrat RoigPublished in 1972, republished in Spanish by the Bilbao publishing house Consonni and with translation by Gemma Deza Guil. They are Mundeta Jover, Mundeta Ventura, and Mundeta Claret, three women who are “more than a mother, a daughter, and a grandmother, more than a changed or almost mutant name,” because in these three lives of these three women, the author michael moon In the preface there is “the reflection of all the lives, all the violence, all the revolutions, all the passions or all the aspirations of the feminine itself”.
Farewell Ramona and welcome back Montserrat Roig, he is journalist, novelist, television presenter, occasional playwright and forerunner of feminism and the claim of historical memory“The daughter of the Eixample in Barcelona, which she reflects so well in her novels, the heir to the political ideals of those defeated in the civil war, a critical militant of the left and a feminist” Anna Maria Moix“which somehow expresses the narrative work stendal, walking the path of life. He was a 45-year-old cancer victim before he died in 1991.Roig signed novels in addition to this cherry time (Sant Jordi Award, 1977), purple hour (1980), daily opera (1982) and melodic voice (1987), storybooks Molta stole and little knew (1971) and youth song (1989), in addition to an extensive journalism study with studies on the subject. Catalans in Nazi camps (1977), in which he voices Republican survivors deported to concentration camps. But despite that In recent years, Roig’s work has enjoyed mild new recognition.the truth is that most of their titles are currently out of print.
everything can change
Maria MurDeanConsonni’s manager explains to this newspaper: Ramona, goodbye It is part of an editorial commitment to ‘literary archaeology’, which includes the salvage of books by authors such as Marge Piercy or James Alan McPherson, many from the ’70s, which are “going out of print or out of print due to this obsessive publishing.” innovations and the surplus publishing market”. Return to Monsterrat Roig bookstores – they will also publish Time of cherries, purple hour and melodious sound– also responds to a dual occupation, “valuing minority languages and translate from Basque, Catalan and Galician” and “answer these questions: feminisms that transcend both the ways we do things and the content we post”.
According to her, Roig’s voice and her feminist perspective on bonds, power and systems continue to dialogue with us: Ramona, goodbye Montserrat Roig talks to us about the weight of religion on women at a very specific moment, but also touches on sex and where we put ourselves in relation to fighting and romantic love: What are these women’s relationships to women? men of his time, with society and What does women’s empowerment mean in every historical moment?. But most of all it It also reminds us that everything can change.. Roig talks about us, the history our mothers lived through, the attempt to be independent, and the way history gave women the opportunity to be autonomous. And it’s monstrous because it also tells us how all the lies that underlie the construction of cities and history are moving forward.”
took ten years
Where would Montserrat Roig be today if he had not died at the age of 45? “I think he’s a really cool guy, he met his death very young and he’s very uncomfortable with it, disagreeing with nothing, positioning himself as an anti-fascist, but it’s a very free way and it always pays off.” And this view of Mur Dean is also shared by the author. Bathsheba Garciaauthor of his biography with other eyes (Roca) and its editor something better (Discussion), an anthology of texts written by Roig in Spanish tele/express, victory, Newspaper And Country Between 1966 and 1983. García said that Roig “died in November 1991, had gone to the United States to teach and He came back when he learned he had cancer, but at that time doctoral dissertations were being made about his work and he was featured in anthologies on Spanish literature.. What happened was that he was missing ten years, he didn’t have the time, but it was there.
Believing that Montserrat Roig was, and remains, “the quintessential Catalan voice of feminism for what the progressivism of the seventies was” and one of the key voices for understanding late Francoism, García wonders why someone is “so well known in Catalonia.” in the 80’s or 90’s He never had a show on TV3, but he still had a show on TVE.. He was very critical of nationalism, had studied communism at the PSUC and had a very clear idea of class struggle”.
A fight that will take place in his work, “Barcelona’s poor middle class their environment was destroyed by the still wealthy but no longer wealthy middle class, war or the Franco regime”. Roig will self-criticize his classit will show its flaws and show it with the point of view and voice of women, with the voice of those three Mundetas who continue to speak to us now, reminding us, as the author has so many times, “if any”. it’s an act of love, it’s a memory.”