The Atonement of Political Sins, Writing O Porco de Pé

Abstract

O Porco de Pé (1928), being a novel of substantial length, can be read as a way to express political contents in a context of extreme censorship on the press. This book seems to be useful to revise the political strategies of Galician nationalism during the period 1918-1924 (electoral participation, cooperation with agrarianism and collaboration with Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship), while implying a searing satire against Primo de Rivera’s regime, focused on its speeches and mass movements. In this article we also analyse the possible historical referents, more or less explicit, that Risco hides in broad strokes behind some characters and situations, among which the autor himself can be found.