Nafarroako euskal idazle handi bat: Manezaundi [A great Basque writer from Navarre: Manezaundi]

Abstract

The article analyses the life and literary work of Enrike Zubiri Gortari, Manezaundi (Luzaide, 1868-Pamplona 1943), one of the greatest writers in the Basque language in the Navarre of the early 20th century. Manezaundi uses a modern-minded, literary and artistic form of the Basque language based on the Basse-Navarre dialect spoken in Luzaide/ Valcarlos, his personal solution to the lack of a refined, precise language to suit his literary needs. Most of his work was burned at the beginning of the 1936 war and only the texts he published in the press have been saved.