No 32. Flor Gelosa
Catalan: Jealous Flower
Planted under your window she soon hides your house in a marvellous green cloud of leaves. Even the sun is late when it stops to stare at the beauty of her flowers. She is delightful but works frantically to take the space over. Eventually you would find out the house has fled.
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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