Ensayo, IPSO (February 2019)
All of his readers and admirers will enjoy this book from Eduardo Mendoza, because they will find, in addition to a fair tribute to Pío Baroja, to whom he was linked after reading his novel El escuadrón del Brigante, a first-person account of Baroja's narrative resources that allowed him "to get out of two obstacles: the realist novels of the nineteenth century and the experimental novels of the postwar period."