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Por Vicente Blasco Ibanez

Vicente Blasco Ibez (1867-1928). Espaa.Naci en Valencia el 29 de enero de 1867. Estudi Derecho pero no ejerci esa profesin y se dedic a la poltica y la literatura.Con veintin aos se inici en la Masonera el 6 de febrero de 1887 y adopt el nombre simblico de Danton en la Logia Unin n 14 de Valencia y después en la logia Acacia n 25.All recibi el encargo del presidente Raymond Poincaré de escribir esta novela sobre la guerra: Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis (1916), que fue un auténtico éxito de ventas en los Estados Unidos. Blasco Ibez muri en Menton (Francia) el 28 de enero 1928.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Linkgua
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 1 ene 2014
• ISBN: 9788499531144

Vicente Blasco Ibanez

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.