The intimate Barcelona of Colometa and Cecília Ce

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Abstract

Mercè Rodoreda tells the story of Barcelona through Colometa and Cecília Ce in her novels La plaça del Diamant (2002 [1962]) and El carrer de les Camèlies (2007 [1966]). The former is a republican and the latter is a prostitute; both are impoverished and form part of the vanquished, whose names are not mentioned in the history books. Rodoreda uses these characters to write the silent history of women and the marginalised, without idealising or mythologising them, thus showing us a Barcelona which too often remains anonymous.

Author Biography

  • Roxana Nadim, University of Valencia

    Roxana Nadim is a professor of general culture at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence where she is also head of cultural affairs. She has a doctorate in comparative literature from Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle and wrote her thesis on the literary representations of Barcelona in French, Spanish, and Catalan literature produced from the period of the Franco regime up until the year 2000.

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Published

2019-01-08

Issue

Vol. 3 (2018): Annual Review 3

Section

SPECIAL ISSUE 2

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Nadim, R. (2019) “The intimate Barcelona of Colometa and Cecília Ce”, Debats. Journal on culture, power and society, 3. Available at: https://revistadebats.net/article/view/1757 (Accessed: 2 November 2026).