Vicente Risco

Vicente Martínez Risco Agüero (born with Ourense in Galicia (Spain) on October 1st 1884, and died in the same city the April 13rd 1963) is there a Galician intellectual of the 20th century of the generation Nós. It is one of the most important figures and a rather complex character of the history of the Galician literature.

First years

Vicente Risco was wire of civil servant. It was a child with delicate health. As of its childhood it is friendly Ramón Otero Pedrayo. In 1899 it finishes its baccalaureat. Bachelor of law of the university of Holy Jacques de Compostelle, it obtains an assistance of civil servant and an use with Ourense.

During these years it takes part in the talks, directed by Marcelo Macías within the framework of a Commission on the Monuments, and in which one finds the intellectuals Xulio Alonso Cuevillas or Arturo Vázquez Núñez, which will influence the literary vocation of Risco. Reading of the French authors and English " décadents" will put it in contact with the Occultisme and the Orientalisme, it thus will study the Bouddhisme and will be affiliated with the theosophism.

In 1910 Risco, between with the drafting of the local newspaper El Miño . It writes there articles Philosophique S, of topicality under the pseudonyms of Rujú Sahib and Polichinela and of the literary articles under its proper name. It dedicates a great admiration with Rabindranath Tagore and the fact of knowing with the circles of the city.

In February 1912 Risco becomes acquainted with Castelao, and speaks of it in praise in the speeches which it publishes in the newspaper El Miño . But Risco will remain still a long time far away from the movement galleguist.

In 1913 it goes back to Madrid to become schoolmaster. He will be pupil Ortega there Gasset, will meet Ramón Gómez of Serna and Luis of Hoyos Sáinz, and will become again Catholique.

In 1916, its finished studies, it returns to Ourense as professor of history to the Teacher training school. In 1917, it founds with Arturo Noguerol Román, the literary review Centuria (Centurie), which will become thereafter from the people who collaborate in it a precedent of the review Nós.

Discovered galleguism

The second republic

Francoism

Ideology

Basically Risco is characterized by its anti-modernism, its thought political is based on the criticism of the Modernité, which he regards as a Décadence and an abandonment of pure and legitimate forms of life. It exalte the Irrationality, the Mysticism and the popular Religiosity, and for this reason even it rejects the realistic literature . It is reticent with parliamentarism during the Restoration. It depreciates the Mediterranean Civilization and defends the celtism and the Atlanticism, this is why it will turn to the Portugal and the Ireland, the latter in particular because of sound Catholicisme and its combat against the Impérialisme English.

For Risco, the true Galicia, it is Galicia traditional, that of the peasants and the sailors, this Galicia in which preserves the race, the religious feeling of the Earth, the Galicia mystifying of last times.

Literary work

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