Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 3/7/2009 Posts: 26,605 Neurons: 78,993 Location: Inside Farlex computers
|
Pío Baroja y Nessi (1872)Considered the foremost Spanish novelist of his time, Baroja was part of the Generation of '98, a group of writers who, in the face of defeat in the Spanish-American War, proclaimed a moral and cultural rebirth for Spain. He wrote almost 100 novels, including 11 trilogies and, perhaps his most ambitious project, a 22-volume cycle about a 19th-century insurgent. Baroja's writings largely concern the intellectual and political climate of his homeland. What career did he give up to be a writer? More...
|
 Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 1/28/2015 Posts: 5,303 Neurons: 2,913,716 Location: Kolkata, Bengal, India
|
oja y Nessi (1872) Considered the foremost Spanish novelist of his time, Baroja was part of the Generation of '98, a group of writers who, in the face of defeat in the Spanish-American War, proclaimed a moral and cultural rebirth for Spain. He wrote almost 100 novels, including 11 trilogies and, perhaps his most ambitious project, a 22-volume cycle about a 19th-century insurgent. Baroja's writings largely concern the intellectual and political climate of his homeland.
|
 Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 1/6/2014 Posts: 449 Neurons: 523,102 Location: Schaerbeek, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium
|
He cut short his already brief career of professor in physics, to become a writer.
|