La Barraca

Escrito por Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Narrado por Montserrat González

Publicada en 1898, "La barraca" es considerada la mejor novela de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, En esta obra maestra se presentan con bastante precisión las duras condiciones de vida de la población campesina y agrícola de los alrededores de la ciudad española de Valencia, en contraste con la de los terratenientes. Se describe igualmente el hermoso paisaje rural valenciano. Destaca la descripción de la huerta valenciana de finales del siglo XIX, con todo lo bueno y todo lo malo, y esas personas capaces de las peores vilezas y al mismo tiempo de la mayor lealtad y generosidad por con los suyos, atrapados todavía en el pasado y sin experimentar los avances del mundo moderno.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Voces
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 15 jun 2024
• ISBN: 9798882275678

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.