La perspectiva humorística en la literatura gallega como expresión del Volksgeist gallego sobre el ejemplo de la narrativa de Manuel Rivas

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to present a different kinds of humour in Galician literaturewhich is considered one of distinctive and fundamental characteristics of Galicianspirituality, also called a Volksgeist if we quote Alfonso Castelao’s dichotomy betweena Spanish and Galician Volksgeist. According to him a humorous attitude towards lifeand its adversity that have Galician is due to a misery that they suffered from duringfour centuries and they treat it as a powerful tool to conjure a fact of life. The analysis isprovided both with theory dedicated to a typology of humour and with some examplesof humorous perspective found in the novels and short story books of Manuel Rivas,one of the contemporary and the best-known Galician writer who makes use of irony,parody, sarcastic, situational or retranca’s humour.