Educated at Valencia where he received his degree in medicine, Baroja then practiced medicine for two years in the Basque country. He moved to Madrid and published his first work, Sombre Lives in 1900. That same year he also published his first novel, The House of the Alzgorri. Baroja then began a series of trilogies intended to stimulate the population to action against what he felt was the stultification of Spanish life. One of the best of these was The Struggle for Life (1904). In 1911, he published The Tree of Knowledge, an autobiographical work. From 1913 to 1928 he published a series of 22 novels as Memoirs of a Man of Action, a monumental work in Spanish literature. Baroja was strongly anti-Christian which did not help the sale of his books or his general popularity. Nevertheless, he is considered to be the foremost Spanish author of his generation. His work is also said to have had a profound effect on Ernest Hemingway. His other works include La Busca (1910), Caudillos de 1830 (1918), Cuentos (1919), Caesar or Nothing (1919), Locuras de Carnaval (1937), Enigmaticos (1948), Dama de Urtubi (1952) and Aqui Paris (1955). |
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