Summary of Madness by Chapters

Posted on Apr 29, 2024 in English

Summary of Madness by Chapters

Chapter 1

I went to the Cafe of Earthly Delights with Armengol, and we found Daniel Serrallonga among the people there. I had long wanted to meet him. When we met, we were talking about politics, as is typical in Spain… Serrallonga was really getting into the conversation, as these policy issues interested him greatly. I was so immersed in the conversation that I didn’t realize I was screaming, and everyone was looking at our table. The police officer Comadran came, and everyone stood up and left the land for Right arrow that day there was a shooting on the Rambla. Everyone gets a call demanding freedom and telling her killer, the priest says that whoever is brave to go with him and Serrallonga to go but some civilian guards will stop his feet and imprisoned. Every afternoon I visited with Armengol it to the Citadel tower and we went to the revolutionary message that do publish but never did, but to believe that if he did and got the pseudonym The Barricadero but not create more problems that it had. We laughed about it, because it was believed to be a hero. Serrallonga One day he left prison and visited the home Armengol. Asked him to teach him their publications and this puts the exusa is that the home of a friend.

Chapter 2

News comes that Daniel Serralonga’s father, Don Ignacio Serralonga, has died. We believe that the empressonament coseqüència death of his son and that gave him discomfort. After talking with the doctor and Boston Don Ignacio tells us that it was insane and therefore had committed suicide. He explained that he had three daughters and that in twenty years had seen only three times he believed that daughters were not with him. In addition it was of good family and he left everything to a woman who believed she loved. We do not believe anything they say and think that you should take a look after it for him, invented many things.

Chapter 3

I was on holiday with my cousin when we thought it would be nice to go Vilaniu Serrallonga to visit, and if we found at least not Know your sisters. At home it seemed that nobody was there and went up there (dressed hunters). In the office of Daniel we find many photos of General Prim (it had always liked this character), when suddenly came a woman who thought we were comnçar thief and calling like crazy, only ‘m occurred calling the names of the sisters because they were not vegessin thieves. Everyone was calm and we apologize to the family since it was logical to think that we were robbers because they were hunting weapons. When everyone was calm and went to the room with Adela, who was very beautiful, attractive and friendly. We were talking about Daniel and Adele told us that she likes guys like his brother but I know it just like the social position he gives.

Chapter 4

Four years after everything, we again find the three (I Serrallonga and Armengol). I explained that I am home. Daniel told us that had the title of doctor, who was in Madrid and met in person and that the General Prim was assassinated … We have a good time talking about developments that have happened during those four years. After the assassination of General Prim Serrallonga attempted to uncover the plot of the crime.

Chapter 5

That same night we met in Boston (the doctor) and told us that Serrallonga became even more crazy, you exit if your room was not eating, not talking to anyone… got sick of being closed every day and the doctor recommended that came out on the street but It did not take well and comnçr to call him and insulted him, told him that knew nothing about science that knew who was talking … the doctor went and told us that this erafruit of self-love. We explained that Daniel said that all women were a vicious … We stayed a while talking about this issue.

Chapter 6

I have already married Matildeta. I introduced my wife to Armengol and I invited to lunch with my mother, my father and my wife. We were talking about, told me that Serrallonga also married and a wedding that was very even talked to the factory were folding. We also talk about the doctor, I told my family that this man thinks everyone is crazy.

Chapter 7

It was six years old who knew nothing nor Serrallonga or the Armengol, I had kids and everything! A man came home, did not know who he was until I said was Serrallonga! He tells me he lost a lawsuit because the judge in Vilaniu. He had come to an issue of the will of his father where he was crazy to put the same reasons that I had said years ago in Boston and I thought he handled the will. We were talking a while until I get above me.

Chapter 8

In a month Serrallonga came home to tell me their stuff. I defend it in many trials and he was the best lawyer of the world. Learned of the crack I did not see for two years or so. One day the Armengol am talking about told me that he found the wife of Daniel and it seemed an old, was looking for a lawyer because he wanted to divorce because it was crazy, the wedding night the hit, was jealous of family physician, dreamed strange things also mistreats his son … We did a trial and Daniel was closed to asylum Horta.

Chapter 9

Serrallonga died not even when it was closed three months. At the funeral I was introduced to the widow and son, who were very sad. They appeared the two sisters of the deceased and called kills the poor widow who fell down unconscious. The brother asked for the death repecte but the friend of Adela was already fighting with Ramon. Corriem those who wanted to order one side to the other but no one was asking about the case until he appear under the Cross parish community and everyone fell silent and ashamed.

Words I have not understood in the book:

  • EXPERTS: person who knows well the art, science or technique.
  • AGRÓNOM: no sale
  • AUSTRIA: what is straightforward, without adornments
  • EXECUTIONER: person responsible for killing sentenced to death. The btxins also lash the prisoners or other penalties applied. We say that a person is a killer when it is very very cruel henchman or punish: The person who tortured and killed following the orders of those who commanded. Also called henchman of a man without feelings or compassion
  • appearance: appearance.
  • Foam: foam. Foam, p.143: foam.
  • ENDOLAT: full of black cloth as a sign of mourning, of grief.
  • Together: together, together. At the same time once.
  • Scared: you have to take fear.
  • Levites: the jacket is a large man to the thighs that is wider below than above. The Levites were carried in the nineteenth century.
  • MAS: a farmhouse, a cottage.
  • COMPLAINT: The accusation that someone in front of a judge against a person or institution.
  • Stirrup leathers: a person is said to be complete and utter fools when you do not understand things, when it is not very intelligent.
  • Scarlet fever: a contagious disease that causes inflammation in the throat and red spots on the skin.
  • ESFEREÏTS: very scared that have caused great fear.
  • Punishable, that deserve to be punished or punitive.
  • Enraptured: a person who both likes something that stares them without thinking or do anything else.
  • SIMIESCA: no exit.
  • PERSISTENCE: a person persists in doing something if you read or defending and not change of attitude.
  • Strabismus: a defect of sight which makes the two eyes do not look in the same direction.
  • Granddaughter: a woman who is the heir of a family, couple or single daughter of a house, the girl chosen for her beauty and charm as a character in a major festival or a dance.
  • PROSÈLIT: A person who accepts membership in a religion, it becomes part of a sect, a political association, etc..

Brief comments on Narcís Oller

Narcis Oller was born in Valls in 1846, was the first great novelist of the Catalan Renaissance, is considered the creator of the modern Catalan novel.la. It occupies a prominent place in the context of global novel.la realistic thanks to works such as The Butterfly (1882), The escanyapobres (1884), villains (1885), The Gold Rush (1890-1892), Madness ( 1899) and Pilar Delgado (1906).

Viewpoint

The viewpoint of this book is an observer, as the narrator is the protagonist and gives his name or too much data on it. Explain what you see and hear and sometimes thinks but does not participate in the main plot of the text. In part it is also a collective viewpoint that also explains what the explquen friends. When in Boston explains the situation Serrallonga father before he died, for example, makes it through dialogue and not the narrator who explains.

Structure

The novel structure consists of nine chapters, grouped into three stages: the first three on the approach which explains the background of the protagonist, known as Serrallonga the Serrallonga stay in prison. and the last three are the results of this evolution. The chapter goes from knot to number six, which explains the evolution of Daniel: When you got sick and insulted him and called the doctor when I did not want to leave your home … The outcome is the last three chapters, explaining how he came after six years without knowing anything of it and had problems with her sisters to the will of his father, his entry into the madhouse of Horta, the death.

Space

Almost all the novel occurs in enclosed spaces: the Delights Cafe, where the narrator meets Serrallonga the Swiss in which they talk about the death of the father of Daniel and in Boston explains that has committed suicide in the house Serrallonga in Vilaniu where the narrator meets the Adela … But there are times when are in the street and start talking right there.

Weather

Weather extratextual, if we consider that the work begins in mid-year 1867 and going through some fifteen years in this period, historical element s’esmente constituens courts in 1868, the murder of General Prim in 1869 and the overthrow of the Carlist Wars in 1872, places the work between 186 and 1883 in Catalonia at that time there was the industrial revolution, ie, they were good times. Furthermore, the internal time can not give too many details.

Main characters

  • Daniel Serrallonga: the protagonist, the whole novel revolves around him and his madness
  • Narrator: Do not say his name or his age … we know we know it thanks to the few data that woman was a student and then was pret lawyer protagonist, married to a Matildeta and had children. its function is basically transmit us what other people say
  • Armengol: is the friend of the narrator and the protagonist. Neither he nor we know too much about his life proved. Pret also studied and its function is transmit to us through the narrator, his point of view.
  • Boston: Son of Daniel and the doctor’s father. It’s a bit nosy, seems to knows everything and is convinced that Serrallonga is crazy. It is very cold with your comments about it.
  • Don Ignacio Serrallonga side: Daniel Serrallonga father committed suicide and the doctor said it was because I was crazy, Boston explains some things about him: he left his duties to devote himself to politics, is home to commitment and suspicious that her daughters are really theirs.
  • Adela and Carolina: Serrallonga are sisters. The descita Adela is a devil in a skirt, and when the narrator knows it, he looks very attractive and sexy. The Carolina is described as a gepeguda and says it is worse than the large (Adela). Ambes bring to trial his brother to the will of his father.

Plot summaries of the parts and structure of the novel

Broken Mirror is a novel divided into three parts, which narrates the beginning and end of a family, Valldaura-Farriols, representing a time and a specific country.

The first part consists of eighteen chapters

It has a function in terms of presentation as regards the characters on stage, so the narration of events are predominant.

We present the founders of the Family: Teresa Goday Valldaura and Savior

Characters belonging to a bourgeois world. Start with a mess by Teresa to the matter of its sale of a needle to help his old family, of which her husband, Nicholas, knows nothing. He died this and Teresa married Valldaura Salvador, which had a relationship with a violinist who committed suicide. Salvador St. Gervasi purchase a tower with a huge garden and have a daughter, Sofia. The Valldaura have a property in Villefranche Teresa does not want to sell the Salvador family friend, Joaquin Berguedà. Time passes. Salvador Sofia grows and dies and he marries Eladi Farriols that it has a daughter from another relationship, but the couple adopted the girl like her. They grow together with the couple’s sons, Ramon and James around their governess, Rose.

The second part, divided into twenty-one chapters

It explains both the external facts and more focused in the privacy of the characters. Ena this part of the relationship Eladi and Sofia is disastrous: he has relationships with girls and very old. Eladi is tricked by the Rose, which is resented by the poor relation to the marriage of Ramon and Maria. Then to find where to spend their summer holidays on the beach but a review of his life and back again. Decides that when they return to tell the truth: they are brothers. Both are sunk his life. Maria is suicide by throwing himself over the bay, fed up with so many pressures.

The last part of thirteen chapters

Continue with the description of family history. Teresa is the main character dies and accompanied by the most beloved memories. War breaks out and the family must travel to Paris. The evolution of history is reflected also in the house where they live, that behaves like a living being who is aging and eventually demolished to build a block of flats.

The central theme of the work

Is death, treated symbolically. It is also the story of a period of Catalonia, wealthy bourgeois and broken by the Civil War. The time is not linear but always revolves around time. As for the characters to say, two constants remain: the loneliness and human existence. Alternate style direct and indirect. The voice is predominant in the third person

The family tree Valldaura

Constancia + + + Amadeu Riera Rovira Nicolas Michel Teresa + + + Barbara Jesus Salvador Eladi + + Sophia Maria Pilar Jaime Ramon

OR blue color means the extramarital affairs or old loves that did not end in marriage.

Main characters

  • Amadeu Riera: It is the notary and be married to Constance’s lover Teresa, remember that relationship forever.
  • Armanda is the cook of Valldaura has a close relationship with the family and has a relationship with Eladi , which gave her earrings. Discover some secrets of the family.
  • Barbara: It is a violinist who know Salvador Valldaura in Vienna. It supports the mirrors and loves the color purple, so it gives you some violets in Salvador with which suicide by throwing himself in a canal.
  • Eladi Stores married to Sofia by economic interests. She has a daughter from another relationship with Pilar Segura.
  • Eulalia: Wife of Rafael Berguedà and friend Teresa. Her husband murder dies leaving the factory and she meets his brother, Quim.
  • James: 2Fill of Sofia and Eladi. It is the only one who has access to personal belongings Teresa. Mor drowned in the pond in the garden of the tower.
  • Masdeu Jesus: Son of Teresa and Michael lamplighter. He works as a painter and lives pretty bad. The war comes as a militiaman in the tower and dies in front of Valldaura.
  • Berguedà Joaquim: Friend of Salvador’s who you hang this Viennese violinist. When Raphael died in murder, gets Eulalia in Paris and end together.
  • Maria: Daughter of Eladi and Pilar is adopted for this. When you know which is the sister of her husband decides to commit suicide by throwing himself over the bay.
  • Marina Riera: Sister’s Attorney Riera has a daughter who will put the same name as her.
  • Masdeu Michael: The boyfriend of the lamplighter Teresa youth. Will have a son, Jesus Masdeu.
  • Rovira Nicholas: The first husband of Teresa. Thanks to him, she goes on a social level as it possesses a great fortune. Give a joy to Teresa and resells this to help the son of the relationship with the lamp.
  • Pilar Segura: Cupletista of Parallel. Eladi and falls in love with him has a daughter, Maria. He died in hospital after being Queen of Parallel.
  • Berguedà Rafael: Husband of Eulalia and brother Quim. He died by assassination of its factory workers.
  • Ramon: eldest son of Sophia. His father is revealed that Maria’s brother and that is suicide. It has a very strange disease that makes him dizzy to come to the water.
  • Rose: The governess revealing falsehoods in Eladi on children as revenge for the humiliation to which is subject to Mary and Ramon
  • Salvador Valldaura: 3Abandona diplomatic career to marry Teresa and live life remembering the Viennese violinist. There will be a close relationship with his daughter Sofia.
  • Sofia