by Pío Baroja · Espasa-Calpe, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423903313
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«El mundo es ansí» is the novel by Pío Baroja published by Espasa-Calpe in the Austral Collection, in paperback, with 152 pages and in Spanish.
The novel follows Sacha Savarof, a Russian woman married to a Spanish painter, during a journey through a traditional and closed Spain. Baroja portrays the hypocrisies of a conservative society and conveys a disenchanted view of the world, with bitter irony and an underlying compassion for his characters.
Originally published in 1912, this novel is the second installment of Pío Baroja's trilogy Las ciudades. This Espasa-Calpe edition is from 1978 and bears number 331 of the Austral Collection.
A work for readers of classic fiction and Spanish literature, with an interest in the Spanish novel of the early twentieth century.
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.
