Nature, the Earth, the Homeland: identity elements in the work of Stanislao Nievo and the major Basque poets

Abstract

A place can be told and described but also re-created by the writer's vision; whoever inhabits it and experiences it contributes to acting as a medium for the story and the symbols that belong to that place, in a constant re-semantization. Stanislao Nievo, with the idea of ​​the Parchi Letterari, and in his works, creates placetelling based on symbolic elements of the communities. A similar process occurs in the works of two of the major contemporary Basque writers: Aresti and Atxaga who interpret the meaning of vasquidad through the symbols that represent it.