no 25.Flor Orgull
Catalan: Proud Flower
The tallest in the meadow and convinced that she is the only flower of the earth, daughter of water and sun. If she has to die in agony while a child tears off her petals, she won't even moan. I made her exceptionally beautiful - let her be proud of her. And I really like her turquoise winged beans. I hope that the petals can fly off the stem when some carefree villain approaches and return to their place when he leaves.
Illustration for poetry by the Catalan poet Mercè Rodoreda, from the volume "Flors de Debò" ("True Flowers"). Description and titles based on the translation by Barbara Łuczak.
The writer, beloved by Catalans, was both a flower lover and a person with unbridled imagination and great emotional sensitivity. The flowers in her poetic prose are multidimensional characters, they take the reader into a completely wild and free gallop of associations. So there is a flower from the Forest of Broken Mirrors, a flower from the black of a thousand black ants, a fork fish, giggling bouquets that flow down rivers to the sea, flowers traveling on their bulbs like flocks of ducks, etc.
Illustrations from the "Fantastic Herbarium" were exhibited at the Cervantes Institute in Krakow, at Planet 11 in Olsztyn and at the Stargard Cultural Center.
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