O porco de pé ou a desilusión permanente. (Un exercicio da retórica da denigración)

Abstract

[Resumo] A autora aborda as estratexias humorísticas utilizadas por Vicente Risco n’O porco de pé, co fin de plasmar un discurso social e moral pola vía do humor e da deformación grotesca da sociedade gale- ga mediante a súa pintura distorsionada. Analiza os mecanismos retóricos e discursivos fundamentais dos que se vale Risco para plasmar o seu subxectivo pensar e sentir sobre as cousas, coma tal, o sarcasmo, a ironía, a denigratio, a transposición, o contraste, a parodia, a ruptura da liña narrativa, as desorbitadas enumera- cións, os circunloquios, a caricatura ou a ambigüidade. Asemade, debulla a metáfora do porco, rica en suxestións operativas na enci- clopedia dos lectores, e outras estratexias que xeran a comicidade e o absurdo, conformando unha armazón de procedementos e intencións acordes coa situación social retratada na novela e co desenmascaramento dos ideais da burguesía.

[Abstract] The article examines Vicente Risco’s use of humour in his satirical novel O porco de pé (‘The pig on its hind legs’) as a means of con- veying a social and moral message with its grotesque distortion of Galician society. She analyses the rhetorical devices used by Risco to project his own attitudes and views on each feature, such as sar- casm, irony, denigration, transposition, contrast, parody, interrup- tion of the flow of the narrative, excessive enumeration, circumlocu- tion, caricature, or ambiguity. Also, she examines his use the image of man-as-pig, so rich in negative associations for the reader, and other images which evoke the comic or the absurd, with which he constructs a framework of devices and figures to describe the social situation portrayed in the novel and with which he unmasks the ide- ology of the bourgeoisie