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Agencies. Madrid. A gray folder with two red ribbons tied keeps literary, sentimental and ideological testament to John Doe, which today has presented in Itzea, home of the Baroja in Bera (Navarre). It is titled The vagaries of fate (Espasa). The values of this work are many: it was the last novel he wrote the San Sebastian author, he is the last unpublished novel, is the story in which the author draws on his experience of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War (his arrest, fled to France and Planning to stay in America) and it closes his trilogy on the Civil War called Saturnalia, consisting of The tramp singer (1950) and Miseries of War (2006 ), where the main character of this literary event unpublished novel and the dawn first appears.
John Doe (San Sebastián, 1872-Madrid, 1956) focuses this time, after the war and World War II in Paris with very autobiographical overtones. Chronicles the journey undertaken Luis Goyena and Elorrio, a journalist and writer, a kind of alter egosuyo to flee the shreds of life that has been converted Spain. First make the journey on foot from Madrid to Valencia, so that makes it to Paris, with the dream of finishing in America. But then, in Paris, John Doe appear, identified as “an old gentleman of the Palais Royal,” which will give its opinion on topics such as the Germany of the time, Nazism and France, and will change your perception towards these issues.
This is a very Baroja novel passages as the start which introduces the characters in a very real way and describes the desolate landscape that he sees as it crosses the country. It is also a novel of ideas where in the various conversations of the characters, especially the protagonist, Baroja belies his literary theories and opinions about communism, the Spanish and the English, the society, the people of the time, optimism, . Friendship, mediocrity and love and heartbreak
“The vagaries of fate has always been located in my family, but had not been published for several reasons: first for fear of Francoist censorship; then in 1972 we started publishing all his work until it appeared in 2006 miseries of war, censored by the dictatorship in the early 50s, until three years ago when Jose Carlos Mainer preparing the biography of Baroja, we proposed The edition of this book which closed Saturnalia “says Caro-Baroja Pio Jaureguialzo, nephew of the writer of the twentieth century classics as The Tree of Knowledge. What does the library had John Doe in Itzea mansion on the banks of the stream of Xantelerreka.
The original of The vagaries of fate has 276 pages plus appendices, which are editing Espasa 190 pages plus an introduction by José-Carlos Mainer. It is the third version: the first is the lost manuscript, the second is the work typed in blue ink and the third is the same but with dozens of deletions, corrections, additions and addenda made in the handwriting of John Doe with black pen. Actually, the first three pages are handwritten and the other pages are typed in landscape way, it was like Baroja used to, whereby each line was longer and allowed rapid progress to rotate less roller machine. The transcript has made Ernesto Viamonte and editing and introduction Mainer, editor of the complete works of Baroja, Galaxia Gutenberg.
Baroja wrote this novel, and the draft Saturnalia, between 1949 and 1951, in his Madrid home of Ruiz de Alarcon Street, number 12. “He lived his internal exile after the Civil War happened abroad. In 1950 he published The vagabond singer, then he sinned naive and presented Miseries of guerraque was censored and maybe for that reason decided not exposed to the whims of fate, “says Caro-Baroja.
The novel It is in Itzea because that is where everything concerning the Baroja is. A house upholstered 40,000 books which bear no clothes closets but books. Bubbling Spain disenchantment of war and postwar, John Doe just returned to his paradise Itzea very sporadic and timely manner. The last time was in 1955, a year before his death. His walks through the Navarra countryside substituted the Retiro Park in Madrid, close to home.
In Itzea surprised Baroja the uprising of 18 July 1936. He was national area. The writer was arrested, almost shot, but was eventually released. On July 22, his nephew Julio went five-kilometer walk across the border with France. Then again. But it would be installed, mainly in Paris. This physical, intellectual and spiritual journey is the novel The vagaries of fate. There are three of its major themes: his obsession with the Spanish conflict and theories of their cases, the presence of a frustrated love and direct style, clear and free of rhetoric. And a desire to travel to America. “That is the central debate of the novel, the protagonist who lives between travel or stay,” says Caro-Baroja.
The vagaries of fate confirms and extends, according Mainer, “absolutely negative view of the Civil War. Baroja was considered outrageous and that the fault was largely the democratization of politics and the politicization of Spanish society, including the Republic, where the major victim was the bourgeoisie. “
unpublished novel, says Mainer, born and comes from the whims of fate, a short novel of the early forties; develops and eventually becomes large in the book now found, The vagaries of fate. To him also two new born Baroja works: The Swan hotel and here, Paris. According to Caro-Baroja no more unpublished fiction. Are some sketches and essays
This work closes Saturnalia, in clear reference to mythological Saturn devouring his children, opens with a prologue. “Some people suspect emborronadores -the paper that we are suspicaces- who wrote this book, half seriously, half in jest, was Luis Goyena and Elorrio. It is said that first gave him the title of the dance of death … “
Source: El País
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