no 20. Flor Fantasma
Catalan: Ghost Flower
She appears at midnight on the last night of the year. She’s the most delicate of all. With each toll of the bell she sends a greeting to beings and phenomena, important and unimportant, and finally to no one else. And then buries herself for another year with a silent curse: tururut!
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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