La Vuelta Al Mundo De Un Novelista / The Trip Around the World of a Novelist: Estados Unidos-cuba-panama-hawai-japon-corea-manchuria

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

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352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1976

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Ulises · Rating 5 out of 5]

Vale cada una de las 620 páginas en oro. Un gran libro desde una perspectiva diferente a los que he leído de viajes, pues quien la escribe es alguien que me cuentas una historia de un pasado antes del mundo como lo conocemos hoy. India aún siendo colonia, no ha habido guerras mundiales, Sri Lanka no lo llaman así, etc.

[Rosa Poveda Valiente · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un libro maravilloso, como todos los de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Como ya he dicho, es un libro para viajar sentado en un sillón, o en un sofá.

[Brynhild Svanhvit · Rating 4 out of 5]

He tardado más en leerlo de lo que Blasco Ibáñez tardó en dar la vuelta al mundo. -_-

[César DPD · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sin quitar merito a la obra, enmarcada dentro de la literatura de viajes, el exceso de descripciones llega a saturar demasiado. A mi juicio le falta ritmo, interactuar más con los personajes del lugar...
Libro correcto, pero con cerca de 1000 páginas para dosificar.