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Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja y Nessi. Novelista español (1872-1956). Doctor en Medicina, abandonó la profesión para dedicarse a los negocios y a la industria, pero pronto halló su camino en el periodismo y en la novela, en la que supo conquistar prestigio mundial. Baroja fue un espíritu inquieto, que acuso en sus primeras obras una tendencia naturalista y una honda preocupación por los problemas sociales. Más tarde, su larga permanencia en Navarra le hizo vivir con mayor intensidad el problema de la raza vasca, de la que se convirtió en cantor, y llevó a sus novelas admirables tipos individuales, que parecen proceder y actuar como herederos de un espíritu racial. Su prosa, sencilla y precisa, da una gran sensación de realidad; la construcción es vigorosa, sin tema matriz seguido fielmente, pues los personajes, generalmente numerosos, son otros tantos tipos vividos cuyos antecedentes y circunstancias se exponen al mismo tiempo que los ambientes en que se desenvuelven, lo que un cierto sentido anecdótico a sus novelas. Por los temas y cuestiones que aborda en sus obras, parece muy influido por los grandes maestros de la literatura rusa y por Nietzsche. Azorín ha dicho de Baroja que su prosa conservará su lozanía y atractivos para las futuras generaciones, y le reconoce el gran mérito de "haber suscitado todo un ambiente nuevo de arte y de pensamientos". Entre sus obras numerosas, las más conocidas son: La casa de Aizgorri, El mayorazgo de Labraz, La feria de los discretos, Los últimos románticos, Las tragedias grotescas, El mundo es ansí, El laberinto de las sirenas, Paradox, rey; Zalacaín el aventurero, Las inquietudes de Shanti-Andía, hermosa novela del mar; La leyenda de Jaun de Alzate, Fantasías vascas, y la serie de novelas históricas denominadas Memorias de un hombre de acción, que muchos han parangonado con los Episodios Nacionales de Pérez Galdos. Sus últimas producciones son: El hotel del Cisne, Canciones del suburbio, El puente de las ánimas, y sus memorias: Desde la última vuelta del camino y Bagatelas de otoño (1949). Fue miembro de la Academia Española (1935).


Pío Baroja y Nessi (28 December 1872 – 30 October 1956) was a Spanish writer of Basque descent, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. Baroja is best known internationally for the trilogy La lucha por la vida (The Struggle for Life, 1922–1924), which offers a vivid depiction of life in Madrid's slums. John Dos Passos greatly admired these works and wrote about them. Baroja's masterpiece is considered to be El árbol de la ciencia (1911) (translated as The Tree of Knowledge), a pessimistic Bildungsroman that depicts the futility of the pursuit of knowledge and of life in general. The title is symbolic: the more the chief protagonist, Andres Hurtado, learns about and experiences life, the more pessimistic he feels and the more futile his life seems.

Born 28 Dic 1872
Died 30 Oct 1956

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  • Cover of: El árbol de la ciencia
    First published in 1911 89 editions

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  • Cover of: Zalacaín el aventurero: historia de las buenas andanzas y fortunas de Martín Zalacaín el aventurero

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  • Cover of: Pío Baroja - la Intuición y el Estilo

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    First published in 1910 10 editions

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  • Cover of: Pío Baroja - el Mayorazgo de Labraz

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  • Cover of: El Mayorazgo de Labraz
    First published in 1903 8 editions

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  • Cover of: Paradox, rey
    First published in 1906 7 editions

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  • Cover of: Obras completas.
    First published in 1947 7 editions

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  • Cover of: Aurora Roja.
    First published in 1918 7 editions

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  • Cover of: Camino de perfección
    First published in 1920 6 editions

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  • Cover of: P�o Baroja - Bagatelas de Oto�o

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  • Cover of: Obras completas
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    First published in 2003 6 editions

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Born 28 Dic 1872
Died 30 Oct 1956

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