
Ramona
Menoslobos, 2019 | Ramona
Press
«Ramona, I hear your voice very clearly. Do you know that this is the most difficult thing in literature?» Elvira Lindo
«Ramona is a prospect, without nostalgia but with bitterness and humor, in the memory of the generation that today is around forty.» Nadal Suau, El Cultural
«Rosario Villajos' book is a generational novel in which you recognize yourself.» Miguel Ángel Hernández, La Verdad
Synopsis
In 1927 E. M. Forster concluded that the difference between story and plot could be summed up in a single word: pain. It is very different for a king and queen to die––story––and for them to die of something: it is that pain that creates the plot. It could be said that Rosario Villajos’s Ramona follows these precepts, and that the story she tells us is of the passage from childhood to adolescence through the pain that transition gives rise to. Perhaps for this reason, neither the protagonist nor the gallery of characters who accompany her appeal to our compassion, and we do not find in them a search for redemption. In the world Rosario Villajos creates, her heroine’s journey is that of a person who lacks the basic means to pay the price of her ticket. A world very similar to our own, whose story is that it constantly rejects us and whose plot is that it does so with shocking ease.
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MB Authors
- Pepa AGUAR
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Manuel ASTUR
- Flavita BANANA
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- María BASTARÓS
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- BLACKIE BOOKS
- Joana BONET
- Juan BONILLA
- Emilio BUESO
- Bibiana CANDIA
- Leonardo CANO
- Pablo CARBONELL
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Juan CUADRA
- Mario CUENCA SANDOVAL
- Malén DENÍS
- Elizabeth DUVAL
- Maria ESCALAS
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Eneko FERNÁNDEZ
- Laura FERRERO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Albert FORNS CANAL
- Miguel GALLARDO
- Olivia GALLO
- Xenia GARCÍA
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- David B. GIL
- Santi GIMÉNEZ
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Enric GONZÁLEZ
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Luci GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Alicia KOPF
- Use LAHOZ
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Shaina Joy MACHLUS
- Adrià MARQUÈS
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Ramon MAS
- Ana MERINO
- Luna MIGUEL
- Amarna MILLER
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Bruno ORO
- Miqui OTERO
- Anna PACHECO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Concepción PEREA
- Juan Manuel DE PRADA
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Antonio J. RODRÍGUEZ
- Félix ROMEO
- Carmen ROMERO
- Xavier RUBERT DE VENTÓS
- Gemma RUIZ
- Juanjo SÁEZ
- Gabriel SALVADÓ
- Màrius SERRA
- Rubén SERRANO
- Ramon SOLSONA
- José Miguel TOMASENA
- David TRUEBA
- Juan VICO
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rosario VILLAJOS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI