O galego na producción de Emilia Pardo Bazán

Abstract

Like many well-known Galician writers who used Castilian as their literary language, the work of Emilia Pardo Bazán is deeply marked by her Galician roots. The article begins by examining Pardo Bazán’s relationship with Galicia, Galician life and the Galician language. The article thus traces the Galician cultural and biographical influences on Pardo Bazán’s life and work, and explores her conciliatory treatment of the Galician language as a ‘dialect’. In her own literary work, Pardo Bazán adds local colour by peppering her rural characters’ speech with Galicianisms. She does not alternate between Galician and Castilian, therefore, but mixes in expressions from Galician that reflect the grammar, phonetics and vocabulary of the language, to create a dramatic rather than folksy sense of realism.