{"id":2317,"date":"2024-02-21T07:10:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T06:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fima.ub.edu\/edl\/las-chicas-de-bloomsbury-de-natalie-jenner\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:15:10","slug":"las-chicas-de-bloomsbury-de-natalie-jenner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fima.ub.edu\/edl\/las-chicas-de-bloomsbury-de-natalie-jenner\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abLas chicas de Bloomsbury\u00bb, de Natalie Jenner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Jenner, Natalie. Las chicas de Bloomsbury.<\/i> Trad., Ismael Attrache. Barcelona: Catedral, 2023. 452 p. (Narrativa). ISBN 978-84-18800-73-3. 22 \u20ac.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Londres, 1950. L\u2019efervescent barri de Bloomsbury. Tres dones que es troben en diferents etapes vitals, per\u00f2 que comparteixen somnis de canvis, treballen a Libros Bloomsbury, una llibreria centen\u00e0ria portada per homes que es regeixen per cinquanta-una normes que cent anys i dues guerres mundials despr\u00e9s resulten tan anacr\u00f2niques com absurdes. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Aquest seria, a grans trets, el context i punt de partida de Las chicas de Bloomsbury<\/i> de Natalie Jenner, tradu\u00efda al castell\u00e0 per Ismael Attrache i publicada recentment per l\u2019editorial Catedral. Jenner, qui va debutar amb el bestseller La Sociedad Jane Austen <\/i>(publicada en castell\u00e0 el 2022 per Libros de Seda), recupera un dels personatges d\u2019aquesta obra, l\u2019Evie Stone, per encetar la trama del seu segon llibre, si b\u00e9 aquest no \u00e9s cap seq\u00fcela del primer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

L’Evie \u00e9s una jove de la primera fornada de dones llicenciades a Cambridge que va a parar a Libros Bloomsbury perqu\u00e8 malgrat tenir un curr\u00edculum brillant que la convertia en la candidata ideal per a una pla\u00e7a com a ajudant d\u2019investigaci\u00f3 a la universitat, un noi m\u00e9s mediocre que ella aconsegueix injustament fer-se amb el lloc.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

M\u00e9s tard, descobrirem que no \u00e9s casual que davant d\u2019aquest cop de realitat l\u2019Evie decideixi redre\u00e7ar la seva carrera laboral en aquesta precisa llibreria; forma part d\u2019una subtrama gaireb\u00e9 detectivesca al voltant d\u2019un exemplar de The mummy! <\/i>(La m\u00f2mia!<\/i>) de Jane Webb Loudon (una aut\u00e8ntica raresa editorial de 1827 d\u2019una novel\u00b7la g\u00f2tica pionera de la ciencia-ficci\u00f3, feminista i prof\u00e8tica), exemplar que acabar\u00e0 jugant un paper decisiu en la resoluci\u00f3 de l\u2019obra que ens ocupa.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Igual que en l\u2019ambient acad\u00e8mic del qual ha fugit, dolguda i desencantada, l\u2019Evie aviat ser\u00e0 conscient que a la llibreria les iniciatives de les seves companyes (la sarc\u00e0stica i enigm\u00e0tica aspirant a escriptora Vivien i la Grace, una mare ofegada en un matrimoni infeli\u00e7), s\u00f3n refusades sistem\u00e0ticament pels seus companys masculins, especialment pel Sr. Dutton (el gerent) i per l\u2019Alec (director de la secci\u00f3 de Narrativa).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

El m\u00f3n est\u00e0 intentant reconstruir-se despr\u00e9s de la guerra i aquestes dones volen canviar la llibreria de la mateixa manera que est\u00e0 canviant el m\u00f3n, fins i tot elles mateixes. Per\u00f2 a la llibreria es troben relegades a funcions merament secund\u00e0ries tradicionalment considerades \u00abfemenines\u00bb, com la de servir el te als companys quatre cops al dia, i per descomptat no tenen ni veu ni vot a l\u2019hora de prendre cap mena de decisi\u00f3, ni tan sols per escollir els t\u00edtols dels libres per vendre. No obstant, amb grans dosis d\u2019aud\u00e0cia i d\u2019aix\u00f2 que ara en diem \u00absororitat\u00bb, van guanyant terreny i fent valer les seves iniciatives per donar esplendor i transformar una llibreria decadent en un epicentre cultural que inevitablement ens recorda molt la hist\u00f2ria de la m\u00edtica llibreria Heywood Hill de l\u2019escriptora Nancy Mitford, que Evelyn Waugh va descriure com \u00abel centre que congregava tot all\u00f2 que quedava de la moda i la intel\u00b7lectualitat a Londres\u00bb. Les nostres sospites queden confirmades quan arribem a la part d\u2019agra\u00efments al final de la novel\u00b7la i la mateixa Jenner reconeix haver-s\u2019hi inspirat, tamb\u00e9 en altres llibreries com Persephone Books (abans situada al mateix carrer on l\u2019autora situa la seva) o The Second Shelf.[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Segurament aquesta part de la novel\u00b7la, on personatges tan exc\u00e8ntrics i peculiars com Daphne du Maurier, Peggy Guggenheim, Sonia Blair (v\u00eddua de George Orwell) o Samuel Beckett coincideixen en saraus que podria perfectament haver organitzat la mateixa Mitford, \u00e9s la part m\u00e9s interessant, din\u00e0mica i divertida de Las chicas de Bloomsbury<\/i>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tot i tractar-se d\u2019una novel\u00b7la catalogada com de ficci\u00f3 hist\u00f2rica, personalment crec que l\u2019autora no fa massa recreaci\u00f3 hist\u00f2rica comparat amb altres obres d\u2019aquest g\u00e8nere, m\u00e9s aviat diria que se serveix d\u2019un context determinat per ambientar la seva trama. Una trama que va teixint un al\u00b7legat feminista del rol de les dones de mitjan segle XX i on tamb\u00e9 s\u2019hi dibuixen pinzellades d\u2019altres temes com l\u2019homosexualitat (en els personatges de Dutton i Allen) o el racisme, com el que sovint pateix l\u2019Ash Ramaswamy, de la secci\u00f3 de Ci\u00e8ncia i Natura de la llibreria.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Las chicas de Bloomsbury<\/span><\/span><\/i> \u00e9s una lectura agradable, en la meva opini\u00f3 m\u00e9s en la l\u00ednia de La societat liter\u00e0ria i del past\u00eds de pell de patata de Guernsey,<\/i> de Mary Ann Shaffer i Annie Barrows (Amsterdam, 2023) que no pas en la de 84, Charing Cross Road, <\/i>de Helene Hanff (LaButxaca, 2012), l\u2019adaptaci\u00f3 cinematogr\u00e0fica de la qual Natalie Jenner reconeix que la va inspirar. Una novel\u00b7la que agradar\u00e0 a tots aquells amants d\u2019hist\u00f2ries ambientades en llibreries i amb el sempre atractiu rerefons d\u2019una Europa que reneix despr\u00e9s de la Segona Guerra Mundial.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

M\u00f2nica S\u00e1ez Mateu<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nDe la 8a promoci\u00f3 de l\u2019Escola de Llibreria<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> Si teniu inter\u00e8s per la hist\u00f2ria de totes aquestes llibreries i m\u00e9s, resulta molt estimulant la lectura de Libres y libreras: mujeres del libro en Londres<\/i> de Yolanda Morat\u00f3, editat per El Paseo el 2021 i que va ser ressenyat<\/a> en el seu dia en aquest blog. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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