La representación del mundo animal en algunos cuentos y novelas breves de Pío Baroja

[Autom. eng. transl.] In many of Pío Baroja's stories, the representation of animals, domestic or wild, plays an important role in understanding the narrative purposes of the Basque author. Inspired by his own origins and the popular traditions of his homeland, Baroja, indeed, in his first short stories often emphasizes the world of animal fiction, attaching particular importance to symbolic interpretations and emotions raised by beings capable of interpreting and concretizing fears, fears, hopes, sensations and values that often seem to transcend the sphere of human knowledge and touch that of the supernatural. Therefore, the purpose of this work consists in the analysis of the different strategies and narrative resources used in the description of the animals that populate the Baroja stories, emphasizing above all the relations between the narrative techniques of the representation of the animal fiction and the expressive will of an author who never knew how to abstract his literary production from the political, historical and social context in which it was conceived.