The City of the Discreet
ISBN 9780648252139
The City of the Discreet is set in the traditional Andalusia of the 19th century. This gentle parody with its vast gallery of characters demonstrates Baroja’s powers of description and his subtle humour. The description of his Cordova and its environs are an invaluable guide to a recent but now lost city.
"Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers when we were young. I deplore the fact that you have not yet received a Nobel Prize especially when it was given to so many who deserved it less like me who am only an adventurer."
Ernest Hemingway
“ …outside of Russia there has never been a novelist so taken up with all that society and respectability reject as Pío Baroja.”
John Dos Passos
“I have never hidden my admirations in literature. They have been and are Dickens Balzac Poe Dostoievski and now Stendhal....”
Pío Baroja
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