“In the Footsteps of the ‘Goldsmith of Magical Wonders.’ Revisiting the Popular Poe in Pío Baroja’s Early Tales”. The Edgar Allan Poe Review, vol 20.1 (2019): 96-109
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Pío Baroja (1872–1956), the most prolific novelist of the so-called Spanish Generation of ’98, began his literary career as a storyteller. The publication of "Vidas sombrías" [Somber Lives] in 1900, a volume of over thirty stories set in the Basque Country, Madrid and Valencia, earned him wide critical acclaim, despite its poor reception by Spanish readers. Baroja himself acknowledged that four or five of the stories were written in imitation of Edgar Allan Poe. This article explores traces of Poe in Baroja’s early storytelling, although it sets out by considering a concept such as unity of sensation (unity of effect), which Baroja indeed borrowed from Poe, although he never acknowledged this. My central concern here is that Baroja’s early admiration of the writer from Boston manifests itself in the adoption of bleak landscapes, Gothic interiors, and psychologically unstable characters. This trend was soon to be abandoned, although Baroja’s concept of the novel, a development of Poe’s ...
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Spanish Peninsular Literature
Edgar Allan Poe
Pío Baroja
Generation of '98
Transatlantic literature
Unity of effect
American short fiction