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Youth and Egolatry

by Pío Baroja

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2Prologue on Intellectual Love
  3. 3Egotism
  4. 4I — Fundamental Ideas
  5. 5Humble and a Wanderer
  6. 6Dogmatophagy
  7. 7Nevertheless, We Call Ourselves Materialists
  8. 8In Defense of Religion
  9. 9Arch-European
  10. 10Epicuri de Grege Porcum
  11. 11Evil and Rousseau’s Chinaman
  12. 12The Root of Disinterested Evil
  13. 13Music as a Sedative
  14. 14Concerning Wagner
  15. 15Universal Musicians
  16. 16The Folk Song
  17. 17On the Optimism of Eunuchs
  18. 18II — Myself, the Writer to My Readers Thirty Years Hence
  19. 19Youthful Writings
  20. 20The Beginning and End of the Journey
  21. 21Mellowness and the Critical Sense
  22. 22Sensibility
  23. 23On Devouring One’s Own God
  24. 24Anarchism
  25. 25New Paths
  26. 26Longing for Change
  27. 27Baroja, You Will Never Amount to Anything
  28. 28The Patriotism of Desire
  29. 29My Home Lands
  30. 30Cruelty and Stupidity
  31. 31The Anterior Image
  32. 32The Tragi-Comedy of Sex
  33. 33The Veils of the Sexual Life
  34. 34A Little Talk
  35. 35The Sovereign Crowd
  36. 36The Remedy
  37. 37III — The Extraradius
  38. 38Rhetoric and Anti-Rhetoric
  39. 39The Rhythm of Style
  40. 40Rhetoric of the Minor Key
  41. 41The Value of My Ideas
  42. 42Genius and Admiration
  43. 43My Literary and Artistic Inclinations
  44. 44My Library
  45. 45On Being a Gentleman
  46. 46Giving Offence
  47. 47Thirst for Glory
  48. 48Elective Antipathies
  49. 49To a Member of Several Academies
  50. 50IV — Admirations and Incompatibilities
  51. 51Cervantes, Shakespeare, Molière
  52. 52The Encyclopedists
  53. 53The Romanticists
  54. 54The Naturalists
  55. 55The Spanish Realists
  56. 56The Russians
  57. 57The Critics
  58. 58V — The Philosophers
  59. 59VI — The Historians
  60. 60The Roman Historians
  61. 61Modern and Contemporary Historians
  62. 62VII — My Family
  63. 63Our History
  64. 64VIII — Memories of Childhood
  65. 65My Parents
  66. 66Monsignor, the Cat
  67. 67Two Lunatics
  68. 68The Hawk
  69. 69In Madrid
  70. 70In Pamplona
  71. 71Don Tirso Larequi
  72. 72A Visionary Rowdy
  73. 73Sarasate
  74. 74Robinson Crusoe and the Mysterious Island
  75. 75IX — As a Student
  76. 76Professors
  77. 77Anti-Militarism
  78. 78To Valencia
  79. 79X — As a Village Doctor
  80. 80Dolores, la Sacristana
  81. 81XI — As a Baker
  82. 82My Father’s Disillusionment
  83. 83Industry and Democracy
  84. 84The Vexations of a Small Tradesman
  85. 85XII — As a Writer
  86. 86Bohemia
  87. 87Our Own Generation
  88. 88Azorín
  89. 89Paul Schmitz
  90. 90Ortega Y Gasset
  91. 91A Pseudo-Patron
  92. 92XIII — Parisian Days
  93. 93Estévanez
  94. 94My Versatility According to Bonafoux
  95. 95XIV — Literary Enmities
  96. 96The Enmity of Dicenta
  97. 97The Posthumous Enmity of Sawa
  98. 98Semi-Hatred on the Part of Silverio Lanza
  99. 99XV — The Press
  100. 100Americans
  101. 101XVI — Politics
  102. 102Votes and Applause
  103. 103Politicians
  104. 104Revolutionists
  105. 105Lerroux
  106. 106An Offer
  107. 107Socialists
  108. 108Love of the Workingman
  109. 109The Conventionalist Barriovero
  110. 110Anarchists
  111. 111The Morality of the Alternating Party System
  112. 112On Obeying the Law
  113. 113The Sternness of the Law
  114. 114XVII — Military Glory
  115. 115The Old-Time Soldier
  116. 116Down Goes Prestige
  117. 117Science and the Picturesque
  118. 118What We Need Today
  119. 119Our Armies
  120. 120Epilogue
  121. 121Palinode and Fresh Outburst of Ire
  122. 122Appendices — Spanish Politicians on Baroja’s Anarchists Note
  123. 123On Baroja’s Anarchists
  124. 124The Works of Pío Baroja

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