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206 Lap"iuum n° 6 - paqer 205 a 217 Aari Jc ^,w/? ⁽'lazircji Alustiza

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h; . , borrowed a few . ; >y the author Bcmarc.o. .xaga in w. ;l. he m; a comparison between our literaturę and a hedg aog that has been lethargic for too lo ,g ^    nately managed to wake d in the twentLm cent^ir'.

x i i rarities of t. e ^asque la juage, the late awakening of our litera, ire and tL . feic .. io e var o : nolitical scenarios ) which is \ de" oped may be of interest to non Basgue readers who want to become familiar with our literaturę. After a few mtroductory notes, the article goes over the main currents that h. '-c shapec ■ the Basque poetic ^r A iv. gei.i . throughout the twenf ;l*. entury. The g- tera of po ..-symboli : poets in u.V^: n. the : ucial me., 'ef w..:    ::: .. ~ li. in expo-

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or . o ost-avai ‘d ; orot ' the c^r 1 of seventic‘

are some of tne step : aat we aave lat . in our journey.

As far as the narrative production is concerned, the description of local customs (known as costumbrismo) dominated the first half of the cen-tury, with modern nove! bursting in in the sixties with varieties ranging from existencial novels to experimental works close to the Noiivea.ii Roman, follo-wed by the renovation of the short narrative genre, ie the writing of stories, in the eighties, all of which has resulted in the current multicoloured narrati-ve scene.

We complete this short description wit i a few ideas about the work of our most international author, Bemardo Atxaga.