THE
CITY OF THE DISCREET
THE BORZOI
SPANISH TRANSLATIONS
| I | THE CABIN (LA BARRACA) By V. Blasco Ibáñez |
| II | THE CITY OF THE DISCREET By Pío Baroja |
| III | MARTIN RIVAS By Alberto Blest-Gana |
| Other volumes in preparation | |
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF
Published October, 1917
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
INTRODUCTION
IN San Sebastián, a beautiful watering place on the northern coast of Guipúzcoa, Spain, Don Pío Baroja y Nessi was born on the 28th day of December, 1872. There, wandering among the foothills of the Pyrenees, listening to the talk of the hardy Basque peasants, playing on the beautiful crescent of the playa, sailing about the pretty land-locked harbour, he spent his childhood. In those early days he became thoroughly conversant with the Basque tongue—that mysterious and impossibly difficult language of whose true origin students are still in doubt.