no 19. Flor Trasplantada
Catalan: Transplanted Flower
There is a tale about people of a land, who abandoned their work to worship flowers. When the king exiled flowers, the people came back to their fields and workshops, but mosquitos brought plague on them. Flowers were replanted to repell mosquitos, but they didn’t find this land a home again. Then the king planted girls, those of a flower scent. Would it work?
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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