La condenada

Por Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

La condenada, de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, trata temas varios con un estilo realista. Entre los relatos destaca el que da título al libro, que termina con la reacción de una mujer, al saber que su marido, en la cárcel, ha sido indultado, y condenado de por vida a presidio en Ceuta. También vale destacar «Venganza Moruna», un cuento negro en todo el sentido del término, en que una familia cree haber redimido a uno de los suyos mediante una extraña venganza.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Linkgua ediciones
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 9 jul 2014
• ISBN: 9788499531977

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.