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The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse
When Julio finally decided to fight, the world and his family knew him for a different man. In the end the man who was once a spoiled son of privilege, became a man of honor and integrity, noble soldier in the war to end all wars. (Jackletless library hardcover)
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This book wasn't what I expected as I didn't really know what it was about before starting it. Basically it is the history of a family. The father is french and goes to Argentina where he meets and marries and then raises a family. His sister in law marries a German, the respective men end up going back to their home country and then war breaks out.
The horror of war is captured amazingly well without too much gruesome detail. The concern of parents for their children the men at the fro...more
The horror of war is captured amazingly well without too much gruesome detail. The concern of parents for their children the men at the fro...more
El problema con esta obra (del año 1926) es que fue concebida bajo el espíritu que dominó a los aliados en la primera posguerra: Alemania es el único culpable de todos los horrores (detalladamente descriptos en el largo capítulo titulado "La invasión"). Todos los personajes germanos son alternativamente presentados como orgullosos, intolerantes, demonios, perversos, traicioneros, impiadosos, adjetivos todos con los que también se califica a su sanguinario emperador. Nada los detiene en...more
Great read. It's a miracle we are all still here really. Makes you realise that there needs to be a dominant power in the world to maintain peace, because of the perpetual struggle for power and control that seems instinctive in, what is still essentially, the tribal human. I sometimes see everyone speaking English and imagine a disollution of culture is happening, and that this is a bad thing, a loss of culture, but this may be our saving grace. Very interesting discourse on what makes 'civilis...more
Siempre me había llamado la atención este libro, pero nunca había empezado a verlo por la imagen que tenía de Blasco Ibañez como autor de la España cañí de La barraca, Cañas y barro... Debo admitir que la novela me ha sorprendido gratamente. Además, fue un best-seller en los Estados Unidos tras la Primera Guerra Mundial lo que propició las dos versiones cinematográficas, la primera de ellas con Rodolfo Valentino como Julio Desnoyers. Precisamente hoy en TV3 han puesto la versión de Minelli (larg...more
No me gustan lo libros sobre guerras pero este es buen recuento de la primera guerra mundial. El libro ofrece variedad: tiene capítulos en los que cuenta la historia de la familia, capítulos en plan discurso filosófico y otros que describen la acción en la zona de batalla. Blasco Ibañez vivió en París durante el comienzo de la guerra, por lo que su recuento es increiblemente realista. Está escrito desde la perspectiva de los aliados así que si el lector por casualidad le tiene manía a los aleman...more
For 30 years this has been one of most favorite books. I read the novel in english not the original spanish. I am going to read it again. I own a copy. I had to special order because it was out of print. I am sure it is available through a library if you can not find it through a book seller.
Very good book; essential reading for anyone interested in preNazi German psyche. An old book so not written for a modern audience.
An extraordinary book where human emotion is leveled to a raw core.
I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I first started reading this book, but overall I'm impressed! The beginning reads like beautiful poetry. I'd say the middle half of the book was all fluff, but Vicente's description of the war and aftermath closed the book with perfection!
Argentina 1870
This is a very good book about the Desnoyers family and the French viewpoint of World War I. The action moved at a good pace. Although it is about the war and some graphic scene of the war are included, the book isn't entirely about the war. The Desnoyers family members are well developed and I became very concerned about their wellbeing, but their German relatives were painted mostly in the negative. Various political viewpoints are discussed, and they all make the reader strongly dislike t...more
Una visión muy clara y conseguida de la España de entonces.
I found this book quite hard going in parts, especially the parts that concentrated on the life of Julio before he went to war but the parts about WWI flowed better. The book is definitely written from a pro-French point of view, with some grim and disturbing scenes of atrocities committed by the advancing German army but nonetheless I enjoyed this read.
Written in the time between WWI and WWII, and having gone through 15 reprints before the copy of the old book I read, this is a good one. The German attitude of WWI was never beaten back, which amongst a universe of other things, built things back for WWII; this book describes the German attitude of WWI through a French family's eyes.
A classic I had never read and suddenly felt the desire. It is 100% worthy of all the praise.
Fantástico; de la trilogía de MAre Nostrum. Una delicia de lectura.
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