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Geraldine Cleary Nichols
Mercè Rodoreda's fiction and her pictorial art centre on women and their lot as they move through life. She portrays women as embodied, material, spatially constrained, and grievously subject to time. Her fiction describes seven stages in a woman's life, marked in terms of the womb: the first stage is pre-menarche, the second menarche, etc. Examples of her artwork are used to illustrate these stages and other recurrent themes in her fiction. Rodoreda's unconventional life and disturbing representations of women were of a piece, provoking early censure but fundamental to understanding her fiction.
