La radiografia del mundo marinero gallego en la narrativa de Manuel Rivas

Abstract

The aim of the article is to present the notion of Galician landscape in its duality that consists of an interior habitat, populated by Galician peasant farmers, and of a coast, lived by people whose life is determined by the Atlantic Ocean (seamen, fishermen, etc.). In the present paper we focus on the second ones in their day to day fight with an hostile environment, on their exceptionally strong characters, so different from the Galician interior inhabitants, which are described by Manuel Rivas in his story books: Ella, maldita alma, ¿Qué me quieres, amor?, La mano del emigrante that will be analyzed.