Youth and Egolatry eBook

Pío Baroja

Table of Contents
Section	Page

Start of eBook	1
II. MYSELF, THE WRITER	1
III. THE EXTRARADIUS	1
IV. ADMIRATIONS AND INCOMPATIBILITIES	1
V. THE PHILOSOPHERS	1
VII. MY FAMILY	1
VIII. MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD	1
IX. AS A STUDENT	1
X. AS A VILLAGE DOCTOR	1
XI. AS A BAKER	1
XII. AS A WRITER	1
XIII. PARISIAN DAYS	1
XIV. LITERARY ENMITIES	1
XV. THE PRESS	1
XVI. POLITICS	1
XVII. MILITARY GLORY	2
INTRODUCTION	2
PROLOGUE	6
EGOTISM	6
I	7
HUMBLE AND A WANDERER	8
DOGMATOPHAGY	8
NEVERTHELESS, WE CALL OURSELVES MATERIALISTS	9
IN DEFENSE OF RELIGION	9
ARCH-EUROPEAN	10
DIONYSIAN OR APOLLONIAN?	10
EPICURI DE GREGE PORCUM	10
EVIL AND ROUSSEAU’S CHINAMAN	11
THE ROOT OF DISINTERESTED EVIL	11
MUSIC AS A SEDATIVE	12
CONCERNING WAGNER	13
UNIVERSAL MUSICIANS	14
THE FOLK SONG	14
ON THE OPTIMISM OF EUNUCHS	14
II	15
TO MY READERS THIRTY YEARS HENCE	15
YOUTHFUL WRITINGS	15
THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE JOURNEY	16
MELLOWNESS AND THE CRITICAL SENSE	16
SENSIBILITY	16
ON DEVOURING ONE’S OWN GOD	17
ANARCHISM	17
NEW PATHS	18
LONGING FOR CHANGE	18
BAROJA, YOU WILL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING	19
THE PATRIOTISM OF DESIRE	20
MY HOME LANDS	21
CRUELTY AND STUPIDITY	21
THE ANTERIOR IMAGE	21
THE TRAGI-COMEDY OF SEX	22
THE VEILS OF THE SEXUAL LIFE	23
A LITTLE TALK	24
UPON THE SUPPOSED MORALITY OF MARRIAGE	24
THE SOVEREIGN CROWD	25
THE REMEDY	25
III	26
RHETORIC AND ANTI-RHETORIC	26
THE RHYTHM OF STYLE	26
RHETORIC OF THE MINOR KEY	27
THE VALUE OF MY IDEAS	28
GENIUS AND ADMIRATION	28
MY LITERARY AND ARTISTIC INCLINATIONS	29
MY LIBRARY	30
ON BEING A GENTLEMAN	30
GIVING OFFENCE	31
THIRST FOR GLORY	32
ELECTIVE ANTIPATHIES	33
TO A MEMBER OF SEVERAL ACADEMIES	34
IV	35
CERVANTES, SHAKESPEARE, MOLIERE	35
THE ENCYCLOPEDISTS	36
THE ROMANTICISTS	36
THE NATURALISTS	37
THE SPANISH REALISTS	38
THE RUSSIANS	38
THE CRITICS	38
V	39
VI	40
THE ROMAN HISTORIANS	40
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORIANS	41
VII	42
FAMILY MYTHOLOGY	42
OUR HISTORY	44
VIII	45
SAN SEBASTIAN	45
MY PARENTS	47
MONSIGNOR, THE CAT	48
TWO LUNATICS	48
THE HAWK	48
IN MADRID	49
IN PAMPLONA	49
DON TIRSO LAREQUI	50
A VISIONARY ROWDY	50
SARASATE	51
ROBINSON CRUSOE AND THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND	51
IX	52
PROFESSORS	53
ANTI-MILITARISM	54
TO VALENCIA	55
X	55
DOLORES, LA SACRISTANA	56
XI	57
MY FATHER’S DISILLUSIONMENT	58
INDUSTRY AND DEMOCRACY	58
THE VEXATIONS OF A SMALL TRADESMAN	59
XII	60
BOHEMIA	60
OUR OWN GENERATION	61
AZORIN	61
PAUL SCHMITZ	62
ORTEGA Y GASSET	62
A PSEUDO-PATRON	63
XIII	64
ESTEVANEZ	64
MY VERSATILITY ACCORDING TO BONAFOUX	65
XIV	65
THE ENMITY OF DICENTA	66
THE POSTHUMOUS ENMITY OF SAWA	66
SEMI-HATRED ON THE PART OF SILVERIO LANZA	68
XV	69
OUR NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS	69
AMERICANS	71
XVI	73
VOTES AND APPLAUSE	73
POLITICIANS	73
REVOLUTIONISTS	74
LERROUX	75
AN OFFER	76
SOCIALISTS	76
LOVE OF THE WORKINGMAN	77
THE CONVENTIONALIST BARRIOVERO	77
ANARCHISTS	78
THE MORALITY OF THE ALTERNATING PARTY SYSTEM	78
ON OBEYING THE LAW	78
THE STERNNESS OF THE LAW	79
XVII	80
THE OLD-TIME SOLDIER	80
DOWN GOES PRESTIGE	81
SCIENCE AND THE PICTURESQUE	81
WHAT WE NEED TODAY	82
OUR ARMIES	82
A WORD FROM KUROKI, THE JAPANESE	83
EPILOGUE	83
PALINODE AND FRESH OUTBURST OF IRE	84
APPENDICES	86
ON BAROJA’S ANARCHISTS	86
SPANISH POLITICIANS	86
ON BAROJA’S ANARCHISTS	87
NOTE	88
THE WORKS OF PIO BAROJA	88

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