A esmorga is one of the most important books in Galician literature, both for its use of the language and for its subject matter.

Censored during the Franco dictatorship, the novel was published for the first time in Argentina, in 1959. It was not until 1970 when, with some paragraphs removed, it was published in Galicia.

Now, on the 50th anniversary of that first Galician edition, the full text is published together with my illustrations.

I have tried to provide another layer of reading while reflecting the viscerality of a text that addresses issues such as mental illness, alcoholism, homosexuality (in Galicia at the end of the 19th century) or police abuse .