Manuel Rivas is a poet, novelist and short story writer. He was born in La Coruña in 1957. His writing, anchored in the soil of Galicia, analyses questions of emigration and the damage caused by Francoism and the Spanish Civil War. His latest novel, L'Éclat dans l’abîme, tells the tale of the book-burning carried out by the Phalangists in 1936 in the port of La Coruña. With passion and lyricism, Manuel Rivas rewrites the memory of his people resisting the fury of Francoism in this magnificent palimpsest made up of a thousand and one tales.

Bibliography: L’Éclat dans l’abîme. Mémoires d’un autodafé (Gallimard )

Manuel Rivas will participate in:
« The inheritance of memory » , round table + france inter broadcast, Wednesday 27 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

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