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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Born

in Valencia, Spain

January 29, 1867

Died

January 28, 1928

Genre

Fiction

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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (January 29, 1867 – January 28, 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director.

Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He is also known for his political activities.

He finished studying law, but hardly practised. He divided his time between politics, literature. He was a fan of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

His life, it can be said, tells a more interesting story than his novels. He was a militant Republican partisan in his youth and founded a newspaper, El Pueblo (translated as either The Town or The People) in his hometown. The newspaper aroused so much controversy that it Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (January 29, 1867 – January 28, 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director.

Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He is also known for his political activities.

He finished studying law, but hardly practised. He divided his time between politics, literature. He was a fan of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

His life, it can be said, tells a more interesting story than his novels. He was a militant Republican partisan in his youth and founded a newspaper, El Pueblo (translated as either The Town or The People) in his hometown. The newspaper aroused so much controversy that it was brought to court many times and censored. He made many enemies and was shot and almost killed in one dispute. The bullet was caught in the clasp of his belt. He had several stormy love affairs.

He volunteered as the proofreader for the novel Noli Me Tangere, in which the Filipino patriot José Rizal expressed his contempt of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. He traveled to Argentina in 1909 where two new cities, Nueva Valencia and Cervantes, were created. He gave conferences on historical events and Spanish literature. Tired and disgusted with government failures and inaction, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez moved to Paris, France at the beginning of World War I.

He was a supporter of the Allies in World War I.

He died in Menton, France at the age of 61.

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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928). España.
Nació en Valencia el 29 de enero de 1867. Estudió Derecho pero no ejerció esa profesión y se dedicó a la política y la literatura. Con veintiún años se inició en la Masonería el 6 de febrero de 1887 y adoptó el nombre simbólico de Danton en la Logia Unión nº 14 de Valencia y después en la logia Acacia nº 25. Allí recibió el encargo del presidente Raymond Poincaré de escribir esta novela sobre la guerra: Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis (1916), que fue un auténtico éxito de ventas en los Estados Unidos. Blasco Ibáñez murió en Menton (Francia) el 28 de enero 1928. ...more

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	Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis 3.96 avg rating — 2,125 ratings — published 1916 — 618 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La barraca 4.11 avg rating — 1,879 ratings — published 1898 — 410 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cañas y barro 4.23 avg rating — 1,437 ratings — published 1902 — 175 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Entre naranjos 3.79 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 1900 — 121 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood and Sand 3.77 avg rating — 481 ratings — published 1908 — 397 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arroz y tartana 3.81 avg rating — 334 ratings — published 1894 — 109 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Catedral 3.78 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1989 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La araña negra 4.09 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1892 — 114 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Maja Desnuda 3.53 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 1977 — 128 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flor de mayo 3.98 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1895 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“All live and die believing that they have known love, thinking it is a common thing, because they confuse it with animal satisfaction; but love is a privilege, love is a lottery of fate, like wealth, like beauty, which only a small minority enjoy....”
― Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Luna Benamor

tags: destiny, fate, love

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“Poor Humanity, crazed with fear, was fleeing in all directions on hearing the thundering pace of the Plague, War, Hunger and Death.”
― Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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“He would roam about the world carrying his recollections with him, and perhaps some day he would come to forget them, for one can live only by forgetting; but when his grief should dissolve with the years he would be left an empty man, like a smiling automaton, incapable of any affections other than meterial ones.”
― Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Luna Benamor

tags: emptiness, grief, memories

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Şubat ayında aşağıdaki kitaplardan hangisini grupla birlikte okumak istersiniz?

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16 votes 18.0%

Mahşerin Dört Atlısı - Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 1916, 445 sayfa

15 votes 16.9%

Malone Ölüyor - Samuel Beckett 1951, 168 sayfa

10 votes 11.2%

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