Baroja and his Anecdotes: don Pío’s Bohemian Galleries

Abstract

In Pío Baroja’s books of memories, bohemianism is very present and it is also present in the rest of his works. The fragmentary vision, of impressionist technique, when describing and portraying his characters, is a constant throughout his literary production. When talking about the bohemians that he met and treated between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, Baroja frequently inserts galleries of artists and writers in whose description he uses the same compositional, partial and subjective technique, reducing the vision of bohemianism to a reality anecdotal and often histrionic or even degrading, but ultimately attractive.