If you listen to this podcast, you will discover the novel In Diamond Square by Catalan novelist Mercè Rodoreda. Maria Àngels Francés (Universitat d’Alacant) offers a reading from a gender perspective, focusing especially on the patriarchal violence inflicted on the protagonist, Natalia, who recounts her life in the first person in Barcelona during the Republic, the Civil War, and the post-war period.

This podcast, included in the Resistant readings catalogue, has received a grant from the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia for research dissemination projects in the field of literature. Resistant readings, coordinated by Teresa Iribarren, is a project of the GRESOL research group at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).