Mosaic III

Mosaic is the only book that Caterina Albert wrote in the first person. This time the path is not made by the imagination: they are episodes of childhood, so vividly imprinted in memory that they explode with freshness when the author, near the age of eighty, rescues them, as will later her sisters Nathalie Sarraute or Alice Munro. Why go back to childhood? For the pleasure of rediscovering the things you have loved in this world, be it grandma or a hen. And to remake the path that goes from individual prehistory, in which a four-year-old creature rebels to defend his will, to the conscious exercise of an art that nests in you and transforms you no matter how little you leave it. . Published in 1946 in a reduced version, Mosaic III appears today with seventeen unpublished pieces rediscovered by Blanca Llum Vidal and Agnès Prats in the Municipal Archive of L'Escala. It is an excavation in intimacy, this invisible foundation that precedes all great work and where inner freedom is built. In feminine, despite the pseudonym that Caterina Albert never gave up, like who does one last pam-i-pipa: in masculine I lift my skirts.