Editing Mercè Rodoreda (section)

====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]]''}}