Forty Lost Years - Couverture souple

Arquimbau, Rosa Maria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913744019 ISBN 13 : 9781913744014

Editeur : FUM D'ESTAMPA PRESS, 2021

Synopsis

Published for the first time in 1971, Forty Lost Years tells the story of Laura Vidal, a woman who becomes a
high-fashion dressmaker to the rich women of Barcelona during Franco’s dictatorship. Rosa Maria Arquimbau’s
masterpiece relives forty years of Catalan history from the proclamation of the Republic to the end of the 1960s
and recreates the frivolous atmosphere of sexually liberal republican Barcelona and the desolation of a country
defeated by the Fascists.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in Barcelona, Arquimbau was a relevant Catalan female activist, journalist and writer whose genres included short stories, novels, dramas, comedies, essays, and poetry. Her short stories were first published when she was a teenager. The humor in her comedies is described as ironic and situational.

During the period of 1924-36, she worked at almost all of the daily and weekly newspapers of the left: Joventut Catalana, La Dona Catalana, Flames Noves, La Nau, Imatges, La Publicitat, l'Opinió, and La Humanitat. She wrote a column in La Rambla, called "Films & Soda", her comments, often laced with irony, depicting the changes women face. Writing on topics such as secularism, the death penalty, fashion, women's prisons, politics, morality, and Mussolini antifeminism, her articles often caused controversy with more conservative newspapers.

Arquimbau was a political activist. In 1932, she signed the Bases per a la Constitució d’un Front Únic Femení Esquerrista, participating in the campaign to collect signatures in favor of women's suffrage. She was president of the "Front Únic Femení Esquerrista" (United Front of Women from the Left), as well as a member of the Republican Left of Catalonia. She was associated with the Club Femení i d’Esports de Barcelona i al Lyceum Club, Associació de Periodistes de Barcelona and Foment de Cultura Femenina.

Arquimbau received the Premio Joan de Santa Maria in 1957. She died in Barcelona in 1991.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: FUM D'ESTAMPA PRESS
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913744019
• ISBN 13: 9781913744014
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 156
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible