Word: shanties
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Restlessness of Shanti Andia, by Pio Baroja, translated by Anthony Kerrigan. A tale of high 19th century adventure (duels, mutiny, piracy) along the Basque seacoast told in a dry, direct style full of stoic understatement...
...Restlessness of Shanti Andía, by Pio Baroja, translated by Anthony Kerrigan. Hemingway claims to be a disciple of this late great Spanish novelist who tells a tale of high 19th century adventure (duels, mutiny, piracy) along the Basque seacoast in a dry, direct style full of stoic understatement...
Adventure & Achievement. The question of Nobelity aside, Shanti Andia makes clear its author's standing as one of the top men of modern Spanish letters and also explains why Hemingway calls himself Baroja's disciple. In this novel the hero, Shanti, is a Basque sea captain who tells his own story, noting: "A strange existence is mine, and that of other wanderers. During one long epoch, all is adventure, events; and then, in another, there is nothing but commentary on past events." The combination of violent action and desperate search for the meaning of action marks every Hemingway...
...Spain's greatest 20th century novelists; yet many of the elements of Shanti Andia have an old-fashioned ring. The story is laid along the Basque seacoast of the igth century. There is a duel, a mutiny, piracy, the slave trade, an escape from prison, changed identities, a kidnaoing, even buried treasure. The hi?h adventure is made believable by the style-dry, direct, understated. But the excitement is only incidental to the story's main theme, which is Shanti's lifelong pursuit of truth and his stoic acceptance of whatever roadblocks fate...
...truth sought by Shanti concerns the fate of an uncle, Juan de Aguirre, who like himself was a seafarer. Throughout the beautifully told story of Shanti's growing up and taking to the sea, fragments of the uncle's life, some contradictory, some provocative, come to his attention. Gradually, before the reader is fully aware of the change, the story has become that of Shanti's quest for his uncle. The mystery is eventually solved by a document written by the uncle himself. But by this time, Shanti and the reader are both well beyond the simple...