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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Born

in Valencia, Spain

January 29, 1867

Died

January 28, 1928

Genre

Fiction

Influences

Émile Zola, Victor Hugo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 3,271 ratings · 232 reviews · 234 distinct works • Similar authors

	La barraca 3.91 avg rating — 483 ratings — published 1898 — 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
	The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Charlotte Brewster Jordan (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 878 ratings — published 1916 — 259 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 3.98 avg rating — 283 ratings — published 1902 — 48 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 3.73 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 1900 — 86 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 3.67 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1908 — 122 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 3.43 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1977 — 49 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 3.74 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1894 — 30 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
	Mare Nostrum 3.96 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1918 — 78 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 3.69 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1903 — 92 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 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1895 — 41 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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Quotes by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

“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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“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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“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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