BAROJA, PIO ), Spanish novelist, was born at San Sebastian. Impersonal, pessimistic and chillingly intellectual, Baroja deals by preference with the rebels and pariahs of the world. He attempts no idealization : his works are even, at times, reminiscent of the picaresque novel. His style is direct and un polished: his matter rarely fails to interest. Among his best known works are La Lucha por la Vida 0904), La Tierra V asca (1909) , and Las Ciudades (192o). Latterly he has been engaged upon a long series of historical episodes, entitled Memorias de an hombre de accion, whose hero is the historical personage Eugenio de Aviraneta.