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dc.identifier	ECF_article_9767
dc.title	A “bottomless well”?. How to Read Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda
dc.contributor.author	Penalba Neus
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	ca
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/rassegna-iberistica/2022/118/un-pou-sense-fons/
dc.description.abstract	This article proposes a comparison of the different existing editions of the posthumous novel by Mercè Rodoreda, La mort i la primavera (Death in Spring), to understand the hermeneutic consequences they have on the meaning of the work. The article shows that disagreements over how the text should be organised are based on three issues: the unknown about the resumption of the novel in the 1980s; whether it is necessary to consider the novel as unfinished but complete and with organic coherence or, on the contrary, as manifestly incomplete; and, finally, whether to prioritise originals or carbon copies. These three aspects have had hermeneutical and technical consequences when editing the preserved typescripts, and are at the heart of the differences between the editions. The aim of this article is not ecdotic, it does not propose how the novel should be edited, but how to read in the light of the existing editions a novel that has gone unnoticed for decades until 2017, when it started to have a great impact on the Catalan literary field.
dc.relation.ispartof	Rassegna iberistica
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 45 \| Issue 118 \| December 2022
dc.issued	2022-12-16
dc.dateAccepted	2022-10-24
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-07-03
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2037-6588
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2022/19/008
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Death in Spring
dc.subject	Edicions pòstumes
dc.subject	Hermeneutic interpretation
dc.subject	Interpretació hermenèutica
dc.subject	La mort i la primavera
dc.subject	Mercè Rodoreda
dc.subject	Posthumous editions
dc.subject	Procés d’escriptura
dc.subject	Writing process

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How to Read Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda

Neus Penalba Universitat de Barcelona, Espanya

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This article proposes a comparison of the different existing editions of the posthumous novel by Mercè Rodoreda, La mort i la primavera (Death in Spring), to understand the hermeneutic consequences they have on the meaning of the work. The article shows that disagreements over how the text should be organised are based on three issues: the unknown about the resumption of the novel in the 1980s; whether it is necessary to consider the novel as unfinished but complete and with organic coherence or, on the contrary, as manifestly incomplete; and, finally, whether to prioritise originals or carbon copies. These three aspects have had hermeneutical and technical consequences when editing the preserved typescripts, and are at the heart of the differences between the editions. The aim of this article is not ecdotic, it does not propose how the novel should be edited, but how to read in the light of the existing editions a novel that has gone unnoticed for decades until 2017, when it started to have a great impact on the Catalan literary field.

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Dec. 16, 2022

Accepted

Oct. 24, 2022

Submitted

July 3, 2022

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Keywords: Interpretació hermenèutica • Writing process • Death in Spring • Edicions pòstumes • Mercè Rodoreda • Hermeneutic interpretation • Posthumous editions • Procés d’escriptura • La mort i la primavera

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