La Cencerrada

Por Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Todos los vecinos de Benimuslim acogieron con extrañeza la noticia. Se casaba el tío Sento, uno de los prohombres del pueblo, el primer contribuyente del distrito, y la novia era Marieta, guapa chica, hija de un carretero, que no aportaba al matrimonio otros bienes que aquella cara morena, con su sonrisa de graciosos hoyuelos y los ojazos negros que parecían adormecerse tras las largas pestañas, entre los dos roque-tes de apretado y brillante cabello que, adornados con pobres horquillas, cubrían sus sienes.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 20 mar 2016
• ISBN: 9788892575295

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.