Quadre del cos i l’aigua

«Godall’s reissue of Quadre del cos i l’aigua [Notebook of the Body and Water] enacts the long-overdue and unequivocal recognition this publication deserves—and allows us, in turn, to recognize it ourselves, fully and unapologetically.

The book you hold in your hands is a bold and groundbreaking work that has been unjustly neglected; too long exiled and forgotten, at a political cost we cannot afford. Not as feminists, not as lesbians, not as Catalans.

With this 2024 reissue, there is no longer any excuse, escape, or pretense for failing to acknowledge—however belatedly—the power of this essential work by Clavé and Chordà. The Catalan has been corrected. Even so, the dissident incorrectness of a lesbian desire that defies norms and grammars cannot and must not be amended.»

— Meri Torras, from the prologue