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Weeds

Chapter 3: CHAPTER I
By Pío Baroja
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A young sculptor and his acquaintances navigate urban bohemian life, moving between a cramped studio and newspaper offices; the narrative presents love affairs, eccentric characters, social gatherings, a general strike, street violence, criminal episodes, arrests, and tragedies, tracing how individual aspirations collide with poverty, political tensions, and moral compromises across a sequence of interlinked episodes.

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Title: Weeds

Author: Pío Baroja

Translator: Isaac Goldberg

Release date: January 16, 2020 [eBook #61183]
Most recently updated: October 17, 2024

Language: English

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Books by PÍO BAROJA

THE CITY OF THE DISCREET
YOUTH AND EGOLATRY
CAESAR OR NOTHING
THE QUEST
WEEDS

NEW YORK: ALFRED · A · KNOPF

WEEDS

BY
PÍO BAROJA

TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH
By ISAAC GOLDBERG

NEW YORK
ALFRED · A · KNOPF
1923

COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

Published, October, 1923

Set up, electrotyped, and printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., Binghamton, N. Y.
Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York.
Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York.

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

PART ONE
I The Studio—The Life Led by Roberto Hasting—Alex Monzón 3
II Señorita Esther Volovitch—A Wedding—Manuel, Photographer’s Apprentice 23
III The “Europea” and the “Benefactora”—A Strange Employment 38
IV The Baroness de Aynant, Her Dogs and Her Mulattress Companion—Wherein is Prepared a Farce 54
V The Life and Miracles of Señor de Mingote—Wherein Beginneth the Succulent Exploitation of Don Sergio 68
VI Kate, The Pale Lass—Roberto’s Love Affairs—Military Punctilio—Wicked Women—Anthropological Disquisitions 83
VII The Berber Feels Profoundly Anglo-Saxon—The Mephistophelian Mingote—Cogolludo—Kate’s Departure 104
PART TWO
I Sandoval—Sánchez Gómez’s “Toads”—Jacob and Jesús 125
II The Names of the “Toads”—The Director of Los Debates and His Editorial Staff 138
III The Santa Casilda Hostelry—Jacob’s History—La Fea and La Sinforosa—The Motherless Child—A not Very Merry Christmas 147
IV Roberto’s Christmas—Northern Folk 163
V General Strike—Gay Times—The Dance at the Frontón—Initiation into Love 179
VI The Snow—More Tales from Don Alonso—Las Injurias—The Asilo del Sur 188
VII The Black House—Conflagration—Flight 211
VIII The Municipal Dungeons—The Returned Soldier—The Convent Soup 218
IX Night in the Paseo de la Virgen del Puerto—A Shot Rings Out—Calatrava and Vidal—A Tango by La Bella Pérez 229
PART THREE
I Can Better Times Have Come at Last?—Vidal’s Proposals 245
II El Garro—Marcos Calatrava—The Master—Confidences 259
III La Flora and La Aragonesa—La Justa—The Grand Opening of the Salón París 274
IV An Execution—On the Sotillo Bridge—Destiny 285
V The Police Court Dungeon—Digressions—Manuel’s Statement 297
VI What Happened in the Judge’s Office—The Chapter House 311
VII La Fea and La Salvadora—Ortiz—Old Friends 319
VIII On the Track of El Bizco—The Outskirts—The Ideal of Jesús 327

PART ONE

CHAPTER I