With Torrente Ballestero

whatWhat makes us Galicians stab my unique literary creation Gonzalo Torrente Ballestero? I do not tend to think deeper about this unknown here, but I want to point out that this distinguished Ferrolán left us an unavoidable and difficult to surpass literary work. First of all, I’m thinking of his novel JB’s saga/leak (1972), which I started writing in Galician, only to discover with my conviction that the lingua propria is still not fully regulated. I ended up writing in Spanish and had something modern quixotic He is looking for a new way. With it, he won the award of the city of Barcelona and critics that year.

Great literary connoisseurs such as Ángel Basanta, José Antonio Ponte Far, Carmen Becerra and Ángel G. Loureiro explained all this and more in magnificent analytical texts, but they failed to popularize the work of the famous Galician storyteller, author of two great novels, e.g. as a trilogy Joys and shadows — as part of The Lord Comes (1957), Where the Wind Turns (1960) and La Pascua Triste (1962)—, Don Juan (1963) i Fragments of the Apocalypse (1977).

The Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago could not believe that his respected colleague was not recognized on earth, knowing that Torrente had begun to write Saga/fugue in Galician, a language that is still fragmented and without a vocabulary that could offer rigorous answers. For this reason I can confirm — and since the author said so — that the Galician language is standardized, most of his works are written in Galician. “Everyone is filled with their time and at least touches on that time before the essential regulation”, he believes.

Because JB’s saga/leak It is an undeniable literary monument. Great credit goes to the critics who managed to expose the deep reality of the work. We must reveal to them the keys to the great literary tower of the writer born in Serantes-Ferrol in 1910 and who died in Salamanca in 1999. That silence or the silence that overshadows his name is doente mag, a kind of recurring injustice, a failure of Us.