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Baroja como materia de sus libros: para una lectura de <em>El árbol de la ciencia</em> (1911) en clave autobiográfica

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The aim of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of Barojian autobiographical literature and to check if there are enough arguments to state that El arbol de la ciencia is Pio Baroja’s most autobiographical novel. For that purpose, and after going over the scholar’s theories about the autobiographical side of Barojian literature, the article focuses on the study of autobiographical characters in El arbol de la ciencia and attempts to place this novel within its «autobiographical space». Lastly, it suggests a possible interpretation of the double value that we attribute to the main character of the novel, Andres Hurtado, as an autobiographical character and as a generational symbol of the Spanish youth that lives the end-of-century crisis.