El viejo del Paseo de los Ingleses

Escrito por Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Narrado por Rafael Baena Zapatero

"El viejo del paseo de los ingleses" es una emotiva novela breve de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez que cuenta, a su vez, muchas historias. Con la capacidad del autor para describir ambientes y caracteres, asistimos a una historia de amor, a la vida de la alta sociedad europea de principios del siglo XX, a la desaparición de la Rusia zarista con todos sus excesos e injusticias, a los primeros años de la revolución bolchevique, y a los ecos que todo ello tiene en las orillas del Mediterráneo, en la Costa Azul. A través de Fedor Ipatief, un personaje frívolo y tierno al que la historia ha dejado varado como un verdadero fósil de épocas pasadas, la narración nos deja melancólico testimonio, con una cierta ironía, de un mundo que quizá no nos resulte tan extraño, y de las vidas de muchas personas tan anónimas como reales, que encuentran su eco en la ficción de Blasco Ibáñez.

Diseño de portada: David Rubiales Suárez.

"El viejo del paseo de los ingleses" is an emotional short novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez with many stories inside. With the author's ability to describe environments and characters, we witness a love story, the life of European high society in the early twentieth century, the demise of Tsarist Russia with all its excesses and injustices, the early years of the Bolshevik revolution, and the echoes that all this has on the shores of the Mediterranean, on the Côte d'Azur. Through Fedor Ipatief, a frivolous and tender character whom history has left stranded as a true fossil of past times, the narration leaves us a melancholic testimony, with a certain irony, of a world that perhaps is not so alien to us, and of the lives of many people as anonymous as they are real, who find their echo in Blasco Ibáñez's fiction. 

Cover art design: David Rubiales Suárez.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Encrucijada Editorial, S.L.U.
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 2 dic 2023
• ISBN: 9798868660184

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.