Ramona: Three Women's Lives in Barcelona, 1946-1991

Correcting Fluid - White. Instrucciones de uso: Ramona, a writer and journalist from Montserrat Red and Francisca Tarradellas (Barcelona, 1946-1991), presents three protagonists: Barcelonian gifts, a family (grandmother, sea and fire) who share the name Ramona, or "Mundta" for short.

They are framed in three distinct historical periods, through which we can appreciate the everyday social customs of Barcelona. The protagonists' lives are narrated through the development of history, so instead of chapters, the experiences of Mundta, the "grandmother," are often sequenced as stories, with the three Mundtas separated by one large white space. Their dietary commitment on 6/12/1894, Ambla's commitment to Francisco, and the death of a wealthy man on 12/1/1919 are key events. The historical context of Mon, another fundamental axis, runs through them.

Internal Revolts of the Protagonists

Mundta Grandmother (Ramona Jove) is characterized by individualism and a spirit of liberty and idealism, which leads her to seek a life outside the conventional marriage expected of a woman. She rebels individually. In love with a man named Victor, who loved the studio, she helps to break the conventional forms of her era, which touched him to live. Some parallels can be drawn between this character and Madame Bovary in terms of her romanticism.

Mundta the Sea (Ramona Ventura) is one whose frustration was shaped by the disillusionment of the Civil War (1936-1939), which affected many people and above all many women who, during the Second Republic (1931-1934), had begun to rebel against the traditional social role assigned to them. Raised in the bourgeoisie of the Eixample, her married life was despotic and frustrating, the opposite of what the grandmother had always dreamed of. Shy and polite, she married a man who was complicated for the state and their three children.

Mundta Fire (Ramona Clara) lives in the times of 1968 and 1969 and reflects the series of generational differences in relation to the two previous female protagonists, the grandmother and the sea. Ramona does not need to hide her feelings as the grandmother or the sea did, but her rebellion also takes the role of breaking Ambla's expectations, distancing herself from the previous generations. She moves in university environments and yearns for the assertion of her personal identity.