by Llorenç Villalonga · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429716207
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«Bearn o la sala de les nines» is the novel by Llorenç Villalonga, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (256 pages, in Catalan).
The novel focuses on the Bearn family and their rural estate, isolated from the outside world, to portray the decline of the Mallorcan aristocracy. The work functions as an elegy for a disintegrating social class and as a reflection on the passage of time, memory, and the loss of values, with careful and elegant prose.
This 1980 edition belongs to the collection Les Millors Obres de la Literatura Catalana, number 43. The novel won the Premi de la Crítica de Narrativa Catalana.
For readers seeking classics of Catalan literature and demanding reading; also used as required reading in secondary education.
Llorenç Villalonga i Pons was a Balearic writer and psychiatrist. While he progressed in his medicine studies, Villalonga traveled to France, Barcelona and Murcia. He gained experience in psychiatry during his stay in France.
