by Pío Baroja · Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475300801
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«Las noches del Buen Retiro» is the novel by Pío Baroja, published by Orbis in hardcover (252 pages, in Spanish).
In Madrid at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, Jaime Thierry, a young aspiring writer, moves through bohemian and literary circles. These circles include politicians, writers, priests, usurers, and women of ill repute; Thierry seeks to make his way in literature and achieve authentic relationships against social conventions.
The novel was originally published in 1934; this 1982 Orbis edition belongs to the Historia de la Literatura Española collection. It is the first installment of the «La juventud perdida» series.
For readers of Spanish classics interested in the literary bohemia of early 20th-century Madrid.
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.
