THE RESTLESSNESS OF SHANTI ANDIA And Other Writings. by Baroja,…

THE RESTLESSNESS OF SHANTI ANDIA And Other Writings.

Edition: First printing.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (1959.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Contains the title novel - a story of a Basque seaman cought in the vileness of the slave trade - and 2 short stories, 4 essays and sketches, and a play "The Legend of Jaun de Alzate". Translated and with a long introductory essay ("The World of Pio Baroja") by Anthony Kerrigan. Back panel of dustjacket has a photograph of Ernest Hemingway with Baroja and a comment from Hemingway that Baroja was the writer who should have received the Nobel prize, not him. Considered one of Spain's greatest modern writers, Baroja was the author of almost 100 novels, including many set in Madrid, 7 volumes of his memoirs, short stories and more, he was an unconformist, anticlerical, anarchist, and he died at 83 self-exiled in Spain. While his Madrid novels are his best known, the writings set in his Basque homeland are more poetic and affectionate. 415 pp.

Condition: Very good in a good dustjacket (previous owner's name blacked out on front endpaper, price-clipped, small chip and closed tear to dustjacket.)

Book ID: 33164
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