Thursday 5 in February we will celebrate the first meeting of Literary Coffee of 2026. At the 19 hours at the venue we will talk about’Eileen, portrait of a marriage by Miquel Berga.
Half biography, half novel, Eileen, portrait of a marriage shows the common life of the writer George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Blair) If it is donated by Eileen O'Shaughnessy. It was not a pleasant life, or the opposite. First came the Spanish Civil War, where Eric participated as a volunteer, while Eileen was waiting for him first in England, then in Barcelona. In escaping the Spanish conflict, another even bloodier one would come: the Second World War. I, in between, Orwell's literary career, economic straits and life projects, the health problems of both, etc.
They are two lives, as they say, of novel·la. And Miquel Berga, university professors, researcher and editor, in addition to being a writer, he has managed to collect them perfectly in this easy-to-read book that can give rise to a good debate. So much for the literary merits of the work (Joanot Martorell prize) as for the historical context it portrays.