by Pío Baroja · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420610504
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«El árbol de la ciencia» is the novel by Pío Baroja, published by Alianza in paperback (250 pages, in Spanish).
The novel narrates the life of Andrés Hurtado, a medical student in Madrid at the end of the 19th century, and paints a critical portrait of the Spain of that era through his family and friends. After working as a doctor in a village, it shows the misery of the peasantry. A conversation with his uncle Iturrioz about science and religion structures the work.
Third novel of Pío Baroja's trilogy La Raza. Originally published in 1911, the action takes place between 1887 and 1898.
A common reading in schools and universities, and a key work for those studying 20th-century Spanish literature and the Generation of '98.
