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“__________________________ Excerpted from the introduction to Goodbye, Ramona by Montserrat Roig.”
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“When Montserrat Roig wrote and published this novel in her native Catalan, her government was still trying to suppress the language.”
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“Roig’s opening throws us in the violent center of the Spanish Civil War, but from there we leap backward in time.”
“With it, an important new voice in Catalan literature was announced—a visionary who could write about the most turbulent times in Spanish history, but on a personal scale.”
“Published by Modern Library, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC Catalan Catherine Lacey Goodbye Ramona María Cristina Hall’ Megan Berkobien Modern Library Montserrat Roig translation Catherine Lacey Catherine Lacey is the author of six books, most recently The Möbius Book and Biography of X .”
“There may be some current world leaders who openly admire Franco.”
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“Roig, who was born during the Franco dictatorship in Spain, was a feminist and antifascist activist in her mid-twenties when she published this novel, her first.”
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“As I began reading Megan Berkobien and María Cristina Hall’s English translation, my curiosity led me to refresh my memory of the events that precipitated and occurred during the Spanish Civil War, all of which, I suspect, will feel strangely familiar to the contemporary reader.”
“Though the lead-up, immediate carnage, and violent tail of the civil war is an important backdrop to the novel, that oft-novelized conflict is not her main focus.”
“The conflict began when a group of far-right nationalists, including a large faction of the military, staged a coup in 1936 in response to election results that they didn’t particularly agree with.”
“As I write this introduction, various far-right movements, in my home country and around the globe, are similarly attempting to oppress their own citizens.”
“The youngest, Ramona Claret, is still in the process of constructing her rebellion against the status quo, but it is a resistance full of real danger—as state-sponsored kidnappings and executions abound.”