A Personal Memoir
As a personal supplement to Los Baroja, the author tells recollections of his own when in the early 1950's he would meet with, and learn from, Julio Caro Baroja, his unele Pio and his other unele Ricardo, the painter. He appreciated Caro Baroja's moral fiber and encyclopaedic knowledge of Spain, even though there were many things in the country that Don Julio did not like, like bullfighting. The author was also curious about Don Pio's ideas —which revealed a little-known anthropological spirit—, and was amazed at Don Ricardo's lightheartedness and optimism, so foreign to Don Pio and Don Julio and so contrary to the contents of his paintings.