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This Holy Week, the activity: Solitude, by Víctor Català, has been held from the Museum of the Mediterranean in Torroella de Montgrí.
It was a literary itinerary to the hermitage of Santa Caterina, a route that we can relive photographically in The Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia. Literary studies believe that the book mountain is inspired by Montgrí.
The philologist Roser Bech Padrosa was the one who accompanied us and guided us from the museum to the Montgrí hermitage. She placed the novel and the author (Víctor Català is the literary pseudonym of Caterina Albert i Paradís) in her time as a starting point before beginning the route.
Already on the way, he made different stops to comment on the relationship of the landscape that we see in relation to Solitude, while commenting on the differences and similarities: what would be fiction and what would surely be plausible with respect to reality.
The mountain in the book that Víctor Català describes is like a place far away from the world, like a labyrinth of wild corners dominated by hidden forces, when in reality the Montgrí has little mystery, located and isolated well in the middle of the landscape, all of it in sight of everyone and where almost no one could get lost.
While we climbed Montgrí, Roser Bech Padrosa read some significant fragments of Solitude that helped us remember the work and the characters of Mila, the hermit, the shepherd and Ànima.
