Editing Mercè Rodoreda (section)

===Romanyà de la Selva (1972-1983)===
[[File:Rodoreda romanya.jpg|thumb|''El senyal vell''|right]]

In 1972, she spent the summer in ''La Senyal'' - currently called ''La Senyal Vell''<ref name=":16" /> - in Romanyà de la Selva, which was a house owned by her friend Carmen Manrubia, however it had been designed by both of them.<ref name=":16" /> Her friendship with Carmen Manrubia existed since when they worked together in the ''Propaganda Commissariat'' of the [[Generalitat de Catalunya|Generalitat of Catalonia]] during the [[Spanish Civil War]], although they became estranged when Manrubio and Rodoreda went into exile in different countries. Also participating in this project were Carmen Manrubia's adopted son, Carlos, Susina Amat and Esther Floricourt.<ref name=":16" /> She lived in this house for six years, until in 1979 she built her own house in Romanyà. The name chosen by the two friends for the house, ''La senyal'', refers to the stigma of Cain in the work ''[[Demian]]'' by [[Hermann Hesse]].<ref name=":16" />

At Manrubio's house she substantially completed the writing work for Broken Mirror that had already begun in Geneva years before. This work is considered the most successful of her literary production and was published in 1974. She also wrote there Trips to various towns within Trips and flowers and the novel [[War, So Much War]]<ref name=":16" /> These two books were published in 1980 and with these she won the City of Barcelona Award. That same year, he also went to Barcelona to make the proclamation of the [[La Mercè|Festes de la Mercè]].<ref name=":19">{{Cite web |title=Chronology (1971-1983) |url=http://www.mercerodoreda.cat/gc/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=315&languageId=1&contentId=-1 |url-status=dead |access-date=2021-07-28 |archive-date=2010-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100930130804/http://www.mercerodoreda.cat/gc/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=315&languageId=1&contentId=-1 }}</ref> Also in that same year, she was awarded the [[Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes|Catalan Literary Lifetime Achievement Award]] for her literary career in the Catalan language, thus achieving her consecration as a writer.<ref name=":17" /> In 1978, ''Semblava de seda i altres contes'' ("It looked like silk and other stories") was published, which was a compilation of stories written throughout her life.<ref name=":16" />

The joint project between Mercè Rodoreda and Manrubio failed.<ref name=":16" /> Mercè Rodoreda bought a piece of land in 1977 in which she had a house built next to the existing one; which would be finished in 1979. According to Anna Maria Saludes and Amat, this abandonment of the Manrubio house was given by Rodoreda's need to follow a life in solitude typical of her character; fruit of the difficult coexistence between the two.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Las tres casas de Mercè Rodoreda |url=http://www.traces.uab.cat/tracesbd/avui/av02139.pdf }}{{Dead link|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In 1979, she wrote her theatrical comedy ''El Maniquí'', which was premiered in the same year by the Brujas de Dol company at the Sitges International Theater Festival directed by Aracelli Bruch.<ref name=":18" />

In those last years of her life, Mercè Rodoreda saw her novels several times on the small and big screen. First, her novel ''Aloma'', directed by Lluís Pascual, made the leap to television in 1978. Later, made the leap to the big screen ''[[The Time of the Doves|La plaça del Diamant]]'' (1982) with [[Sílvia Munt|Silvia Munt]] in the role of Colometa and directed by [[Francesc Betriu]].<ref name=":19" />

In 1982, she wrote a compilation of biographical articles published in [[Serra d'Or]] titled ''Childhood Files''. Mercè Rodoreda belonged to the [[Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana|Catalan Language Writers Association]] and was a member and honorary member after her return.<ref name=":17" />

During the last period of her life, her works developed from her usual psychologic style to become more akin to [[symbol]]ism in its more cryptic form.

In 1998, a literature prize was instituted in her name: the Mercè Rodoreda prize for short stories and narratives.

She was made a Member of Honour of the ''[[Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana]]'',  the Association of Writers in Catalan Language. The library in [[Platja d'Aro]] is named in her honor.

====Death====
[[File:Romanya-rodoreda-tomba2.jpg|thumb|Mercè Rodoreda's grave in the Romanyà cemetery.|right]]

At 1:30&nbsp;p.m. on April 13, 1983, Mercè Rodoreda died of very advanced [[liver cancer]] at the Muñoz Clinic, in Girona.<ref name=":17" /> During her last days, when she was already admitted to the hospital, she reconciled with the members of her family after they were notified by [[Joan Sales i Vallès|Joan Sales]]. As explained by Rodoreda's close friend, Isabel Parés, when Rodoreda was diagnosed with cancer, she collapsed and did not want to fight to live.<ref name="Mort">{{cite video |people = Josep M. Gurguí, Margarida Puig, Isabel Parés, Montserrat Casals, Núria Folch, Pere Gimferrer, Josep Maria Castellet |year = 2008 |title =''Mercè Rodoreda, vida secreta'' |medium = Producció Televisiva |publisher = [[TV3 (Catalonia)|TV3]] |time = 00:32:20 - 00:35:00 }}<!-- |director= Joan Úbeda --></ref>

{{blockquote|Death fled through the heart and when I no longer had death inside I died.<ref name="Mort"/>|Mercè Rodoreda, ''[[Death in Spring]]''}}

The burning chapel was installed in the [[Palau Solterra]] of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat and, following her wishes, Rodoreda was buried in the Romanyà de la Selva cemetery in a massive burial attended by many of her colleagues and colleagues. other personalities of the moment.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1983-04-13 |title=La muerte de Mercè Rodoreda supone la desaparición de una de las mayores figuras de la literatura catalana |language=es |work=El País |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1983/04/14/cultura/419119202_850215.html |access-date=2021-07-30|issn=1134-6582}}</ref> Her intellectual legacy was inherited from the [[Institute for Catalan Studies]], which years later created the Mercè Rodoreda Foundation.<ref name=":17" /><ref>[http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.es/preview/1983/04/16/pagina-25/32965515/pdf.html Article] in ''[[La Vanguardia]]'' of 1983/04/16</ref>

{{blockquote|Beloved, these things are life.<ref name="Mort"/>|Mercè Rodoreda, ''prologue to [[The Time of the Doves]]''}}