by Pío Baroja · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420634012
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«El árbol de la ciencia» is the novel by Pío Baroja published by Alianza in paperback, with 253 pages, in Spanish.
The novel follows Andrés Hurtado, a medical student who travels through early 20th-century Spain amid misery, failure and skepticism. Baroja confronts faith in science with the harshness of the social reality, religion and morality of his time, and composes one of the most pessimistic and lucid visions of the Generation of '98.
Third novel of the «La Raza» series by Pío Baroja, originally published in 1911.
Aimed at readers interested in Spanish literature, 20th-century classics and novels with a philosophical background.
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.
