de Promonta, which were not published during his lifetime. He died on April 30, 1963, in Ourense, a few days after Franco's government gave him the Medal of Alfonso X. Ideology The political ideology of Vicente Risco was based on a critique of the modern world, considered decadent. He exalted irrationalism, mysticism and popular religion, and rejected realist literature. He also despised Mediterranean civilization in favor of Celticism. Since his youth he espoused racist ideas, later defined as properly antisemitic. He praised Nazism as a "vital reaction of the German nation". A follower of the essentialism of Manuel Murguía vis-à-vis the concept in nation, he saw the Iberian Peninsula as divisible into two parts: north and south from the Duero River. The north would be aryan and superior, and the south semitic and inferior. Literature A trabe de ouro e a trabe de alquitrán O lobo da xente, 1925 A coutada, 1926 O Porco de Pé, 1928 O bufón d'el rei, 1928 Nós, os inadaptados, 1933 La puerta de paja, 1953 References External links Vicente Risco's foundation Bibliteca Virtual Galega Galician nationalists Writers from Galicia (Spain) Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (National faction) 1884 births 1963 deaths Antisemitism in Spain Spanish fascists