by Llorenç Villalonga · labutxaca · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788496863897
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«Bearn o la sala de les nines» is the novel by Llorenç Villalonga, published by labutxaca in paperback (352 pages, in Catalan).
Through a long letter from Joan Mayol, chaplain of Bearn and possible natural son of don Toni, the figure of the aristocrat is reconstructed. An admirer of the Enlightenment, don Toni embodies the contradictions of the declining rural Mallorcan aristocracy. The novel combines memories and ambivalences to compose an elegy on the loss of a world.
Originally published in 1956, it won the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Catalana in 1962. This paperback edition is from 2008.
Suitable for readers of Catalan literary classics and literary fiction about the decline of a social class.
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.
