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Baroja: The Road to Perfection

edited and translated by Walter Borenstein

The Road to Perfection (Camino de Perfección) was written in 1901 and published the following year. It marked a pivotal point in Pío Baroja's development as a writer and thinker. It tells the story of Fernando Ossorio, a young man who makes a spiritual and physical journey through parts of central Spain. At the start of the book, Baroja narrates and guides Ossorio before leaving him to his own resources. On this epic journey Ossorio has an incestuous affair with his aunt, travels with a philosophical wagon driver, seeks spiritual purification, and finally gets married and becomes a father. The work has been subjected to much censorship in its time, and of all Baroja's works, this one has elicited the most enmity towards the views of its writer. This complete edition is the first time that this seminal work has appeared in English. Spanish text with facing-page translation, introduction and notes. 341p (Aris & Phillips, an imprint of Oxbow Books 2008)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Select Bibliography
The text and its varients
Camino de Perfeccion/Road to Perfection
Notes

Author Bibliographic

Walter Borenstein is a Professor Emeritus of Spanish at SUNY New Paltz. He has taught numerous courses, read papers and written articles on his specialization, the Generation of 1898 Spain. He is the translator of The Tribune of the people by Emilia Pardo Bazan (1999), Journeys in Time and Place: Two Works of Azorin: Confessions of a Little Philosopher and the Route of Don Quixote (2002) and The Leper Biship by Gabriel Miro, published in this series. (2008)

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