La sublevación de Martínez

Escrito por Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Narrado por Rafael Baena Zapatero

"La sublevación de Martínez" es un cuento de Blasco Ibáñez que, con un tono irónico, describe los avatares de un humilde hombre del campo mejicano que utiliza la revolución para medrar en la vida. Iletrado, megalómano y dominado por su mujer, la escalada en el poder de Doroteo Martínez refleja la deriva de los movimientos revolucionarios tan comunes en la historia temprana de la República Mejicana. Y si la narración denuncia el caos y la arbitrariedad de las instituciones en Méjico, el retrato del protagonista y de su mujer, la temible Guadalupe, mujer de carácter que ha hecho la guerra con su marido, nos ofrece una mirada divertida pero descarnada a los protagonistas de un tiempo convulso.

Diseño de portada: David Rubiales Suárez.

"La sublevación de Martínez" is a short story by Blasco Ibáñez that, with an ironic tone, describes the adventures of a humble man from the Mexican countryside who uses the revolution to get ahead in life. Illiterate, megalomaniac and dominated by his wife, Doroteo Martínez's rise to power reflects the drift of the revolutionary movements so common in the early history of the Mexican Republic. And if the author denounces the chaos and arbitrariness of Mexico's institutions, the portrait of the protagonist and his wife, the fearsome Guadalupe, a woman of character who has gone to war with her husband, offers an amusing but stark look at the protagonists of a convulsive time.

Cover art design: David Rubiales Suárez.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Encrucijada Editorial, S.L.U.
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 28 oct 2023
• ISBN: 9798868701993

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and political activist. Born in Valencia, he studied law at university, graduating in 1888. As a young man, he founded the newspaper El Pueblo and gained a reputation as a militant Republican. After a series of court cases over his controversial publication, he was arrested in 1896 and spent several months in prison. A staunch opponent of the Spanish monarchy, he worked as a proofreader for Filipino nationalist José Rizal’s groundbreaking novel Noli Me Tangere (1887). Blasco Ibáñez’s first novel, The Black Spider (1892), was a pointed critique of the Jesuit order and its influence on Spanish life, but his first major work, Airs and Graces (1894), came two years later. For the next decade, his novels showed the influence of Émile Zola and other leading naturalist writers, whose attention to environment and social conditions produced work that explored the struggles of working-class individuals. His late career, characterized by romance and adventure, proved more successful by far. Blood and Sand (1908), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916), and Mare Nostrum (1918) were all adapted into successful feature length films by such directors as Fred Niblo and Rex Ingram.