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Died. Pio Baroja y Nessi, 83, famed old dragon of Spanish literature (The Struggle for Life, Youth and Egolatry), whose bitter, free-thinking attacks on church and state kept him in hot water, and whose hard-scratch realism in more than 100 novels made him a candidate (1946) for the Nobel Prize; in Madrid. A lifelong bachelor (he thought Spanish women were churchbound, thus intellectually inferior), Don Pio practiced medicine less than two years, ran a bakery with his brother, job-hunted across Europe, finally took up writing ("a means of living without a livelihood"). His harsh, simply written novels...
Pilgrimaging to a Madrid apartment, grizzled Author Ernest Hemingway, 57, sat reverently at the bedside of frail Author Pio Baroja, 84, now an invalid as well as the tired lion of Spanish letters, whose works are cynical, realistic, often spoof tradition and women. Papa bore gifts-a copy of his Farewell to Arms inscribed to Don Pio "in homage from his disciple," a sweater and socks of softest cashmere, a bottle of Scotch whisky. Presenting his offerings, Disciple Hemingway said hoarsely: "Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted...
...LORD OF LABRAZ-Pio Baroja -Knopf ($2.50). The Spanish hail Señor Baroja as their most popular living talespinner. He writes a little like Dickens, a little like Stevenson, always like a Spaniard-that is, with bold light, harsh shading. His story here is quite simple-a blind nobleman in a priest-ridden hill town quixotically shoulders his brother's misdeeds, earning only calumny and spite from the populace, renouncing society and going to wander, Lear-like, over the bleak table-lands with a wronged barmaid for his Cordelia, a Basque beggar for Poor Tom. It is fiction...
Professor Antonio G. Solalinde, of the Centro de Estudios Historieos in Madrid will give a lecture in Spanish this evening on "Pio Baroja, Novelista" in Emerson J at 8 o'clock Professor Sola linde is one of the most distinguished Spanish scholars now living
...Tuesday, February 10, at 8 o'clock, Professor Antonio G. Solalinde of Madrid will give a lecture in Emerson J on the Spanish novelist, Pio Baroja. The lecture is under the auspices of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures...