One thing is to play and another is that there is no trace of it, not only metaphorically, but also physically: how many toys that we had as children no longer exist? If one is a writer, could we perhaps find traces of him in his works?
This has been done by Julià Guillamon, who in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Museu del Joguet de Catalunya-Figueres has organized a major exhibition based on the texts that refer to the toys on display, with another complementary one in the Jaume Fuster library that opens this Thursday, October 20 at 6:30 p.m. And if there will be toys in Figueres, in Barcelona the texts will be accompanied by large-format images.
Dolls, spinning tops, bowling pins, robots, miniature cars, puppets and little theaters, cardboard horses, lead figures, Meccano, little kitchens or balls... along with texts ranging from Víctor Català to Maria-Mercè Marçal, including, for example, Joan Brossa and Salvador Espriu –those who have written the most about toys and that they didn't hit it off at all– or Joan Perucho, Montserrat Roig, Mercè Rodoreda, Rosa M. Arquimbau, Josep M. de Sagarra, Irene Polo... and so on. 48 classic authors of the 20th century in Catalan. They will accompany us on a nostalgic trip to a past that we have not lived directly, of course, but we have inherited.
The Figueres exhibition opens on the 27th, and the exhibition is also present with a book that... who would have thought! He is very playful.
Catalan version, here
