A sombra da Guerra Civil en Luís Pimentel

Abstract

The Civil War that took place in Spain from 1936-1938 and that was projected in Galicia mainly by brutal repression, broke up the lives of thousands of Galicians by death or by way of unforgettable trauma. We have the privilege that one of these permanent victims is one of our poets, Luis Pimentel (1885-1958). His verses make up a very useful testimony of what the massacre meant from a collective as well as personal point of view, and are reflected in his life of fear and existential anguish in Lugo. Behind the well-known “Cunetas”, Pimentel left us a continuous corpus in which there emerges a new way of looking around after having observed how some of his were being annihilated with no other fault than the fact that they did not support the fascist regime that was invading. Pimentel’s poems are going to become a magnificent documentary of that historical drama from the perspective of a victim with expressive qualities