With the author, Neus Penalba, accompanied Anna Oliver, president of ACPV.
"No one will like it, but I loved writing it. It's not quite finished, it is, as I would say?, to embroider it, eh? She is very strange, there is nothing that is true. It's horrible!» This is how Mercè Rodoreda announced Death and spring in an interview of 1982. He died in the spring of the following year, without having been able to complete the final review. His posthumous novel could not be liked by many people in the early sixties - when he wrote the first version - or in Catalonia during the transition, when Rodoreda achieved national fame; But, from the 2017, it has finally found the audience it deserves. Perhaps a fascinating novel about death was destined to become a creature that would see the light after the passing of the mother to ensure her posthumous fame, which had already been won with the other novels, but that this updated. It is precisely the novel about death and death that makes her still alive as a radically current writer in Catalan literature. This essay claims the central place that La mort i la primavera occupied in Rodoreda's creative project and proposes to interpret the novel from a triple reading that deepens the historical echoes, anthropological and metaphysical of this nameless town that rots in dung and wisteria.
