This monologue, performed by Fina Reus, deals with the novel Solitud by Víctor Català and the film Stromboli by Roberto Rossellini. It is directed by Imma Colomer with dramaturgy by Núria Casado Gual, who has freely adapted an academic text by the philologist Rosa Delor to the theater using the format of a conference.
Dr. Nela Simari, a distinguished expert in the field of comparative literature, has been invited to give the opening lecture of an international conference on European cinema. In it she offers a comparative analysis between the great novel by Víctor Català and the emblematic film by Rossellini, with which modern cinema is considered to begin.
Dr. Simari has an important challenge ahead of her: to demonstrate the capital and unacknowledged influence that Català had on the Italian filmmaker in his masterpiece. But as her presentation progresses, a more personal challenge becomes clear: reopening wounds from the past, from the perspective of the present. Catalan language.
