by Pío Baroja · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420635545
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«Cuentos» is Pío Baroja's collection of short stories, published by Alianza in paperback (252 pages, in Spanish).
Volume bringing together almost all the stories from Pío Baroja's «Vidas sombrías» and later tales such as «Elizabide el Vagabundo» and «La dama de Urtubi». They feature the Basque setting, Madrid themes, anarchist ideas, lyrical sensibility, and sadness at injustice.
Second edition published in 2001; appears in Alianza's Literatura collection, within El Libro de Bolsillo.
Readers of short fiction interested in 20th-century Spanish short-story writing and Pío Baroja's prose.
Pío Baroja y Nessi was a Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. He was a member of an illustrious family. His brother Ricardo was a painter, writer and engraver, and his nephew Julio Caro Baroja, son of his younger sister Carmen who was a goldsmith, was a well-known anthropologist.
