by Carme Riera · Columna CAT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483005231
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«Temps d'una espera: dietari d'un embaràs» is the motherhood diary by Carme Riera, published by Columna CAT in paperback (192 pages, in Catalan).
Carme Riera writes this diary upon learning of her second pregnancy and records in it thoughts, sensations and feelings of the wait. From that experience she reflects on the female condition and motherhood throughout history. She avoids clichés and medical jargon to convey an experience that goes from the personal to the social.
This 2003 edition is the fourth in the Clàssica collection (no. 279); the work was originally published in 1998.
For readers interested in personal diaries and contemporary literature in Catalan, especially on motherhood.
Carme Riera Guilera is a novelist and essayist. She has also written short stories, scripts for radio and television and literary criticism. She holds a doctorate in Hispanic Philology and is a professor of Spanish literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
