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by Vicente Risco · Editorial Galaxia, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788491517344
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ISBN: 9788491517344
O porco de pé (1928) es una de las obras más conocidas de Vicente Risco, considerada por muchos críticos como la primera novela gallega moderna. La obra presenta, bajo el pretexto del ascenso de don Celidonio en una Galicia caciquil, un cuadro paródico y amargo de la época. El narrador critica todas las ideologías, corrientes artísticas, agrupaciones políticas y estamentos sociales, pintando una imagen global y esperpéntica de la Galicia de principios del siglo XX. Esta pintura lleva al lector de la risa a la carcajada en un desacougo amargo. Es una novela que rebosa inteligencia y que conserva su actualidad, vigencia y frescura.

Vicente Martínez Risco Agüero was a Galician intellectual of the 20th century. He was a founder member of Xeración Nós, and among the most important figures in the history of Galician literature. He is well regarded for his writings on Galician nationalism, as well as a contributor to the Galician New Narrative. He is also the father of Spanish novelist and critic Antonio Risco.