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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

 
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(born Jan. 29, 1867, Valencia, Spain — died Jan. 28, 1928, Menton, France) Spanish writer and politician. An ardent republican, he was elected to the Cortes (parliament) but later settled on the French Riviera because of his opposition to the military dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera. His early novels are primarily intense depictions of life in Valencia. He achieved world renown for his novels dealing with World War I, especially The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916).

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Fairy Tale Companion: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
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Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente (1867–1928), novelist who has been called ‘the Spanish Zola’ because of his attachment to the naturalistic school. He wrote several collections of short stories as well, such as Cuentos valencianos (Tales from Valencia, 1893) and La condenada (The Condemned Woman, 1896). Many of his tales are set in his native land, Valencia. In general, his stories are very realistic, sometimes verging on naturalism. Blasco Ibáñez shows his predilection for poor and marginal characters and tends to depict the tension that exists between people from different social classes. Nevertheless, he also wrote such stories as ‘El dragón del patriarca’ (‘The Patriarch's Dragon’, 1893) and ‘En la puerta del cielo’ (‘At Heaven's Door’, 1893), which are apparently based on folk material; in any case, they have a considerable number of fantastic and supernatural elements.

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Columbia Encyclopedia: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
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Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente (vēthān'tā blä'skō ēbä'nyāth) 1867-1928, Spanish novelist and politician, b. Valencia. Outspoken against the monarchy, Blasco Ibáñez published a radical republican journal, El pueblo, and was imprisoned 30 times for political activism. His novels are primarily realistic in conception. The early ones, set in Valencia, include Flor de mayo (1895, tr. The Mayflower, 1921), La barraca [The Cabin] (1898), Cañas y barro (1902, tr. Reeds and Mud, 1928), and La catedral (1903, tr. The Shadow of the Cathedral, 1909). He traveled in South America, returning to Spain at the outbreak of World War I. He became a propagandist for the Allies, and his war novel, Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis (1916, tr. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1918), made him world famous. He died a voluntary political exile.

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See study by A. G. Day and E. C. Knowlton (1972).

Dictionary: Blas·co I·bá·ñez   (blä'skō ē-bän'yās, ē-vän'yĕth) pronunciation
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, Vicente 1867-1928.

Spanish writer of naturalistic novels concerning his homeland, such as The Cabin (1898), and several highly popular but less literary novels, including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916).


 
 

 

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