Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez ( born January 29, 1867 in Valencia, Spain, † January 28, 1928 in Menton, France) was a Spanish writer and politician.

Life

Blasco Ibáñez studied law at the University of Valencia and joined soon after, in the Republican Party one. In Paris, where he had to live in exile for some time, he met the French naturalism, which had a strong influence on his later works, in particular his novel Arroz y tartana (1894 ). Also In 1894, Blasco Ibáñez, the daily El pueblo, which represented his political platform, first by the articles of the Republican leading figure of Francisco Pi i Margall and later, after the separation from him, through his own contributions, he soon became enormous prestige, before all by his bitter and hard struggle against the Spanish governments of the time ( Gobiernos of Restoration ), helped in the Valencian population.

After he was convicted, imprisoned, and sent back into exile (1896 ), returned Blasco Ibáñez two years later to Spain and was elected there in six legislative periods in the Spanish Cortes. In 1908 he decided to retire from politics and to seek his fortune in Argentina. After several years, however, he returned to Europe and settled again in Paris. There he wrote in 1914 his most famous work, Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis. In 1921 he decided to move into a house to Nice, which belonged to him for some time. There he wrote his last novels, the better arrived at the audience than his earlier works that reported by the constant political struggle with the government and of the unjust and anti-social conditions of his time, such as his work La barraca of 1898.

Importance

Blasco Ibáñez was an author who had strong connections to the French Naturalism and wanted to direct your attention to social and political disagreements. He was the last truly great author of the realism of the 19th century due to its unique imagination and by his extremely detailed descriptions of landscapes and people.

In the German-speaking world, especially Otto Albrecht van Bebber made ​​known the work of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez with his translations.

His books were often filmed, not least in Hollywood. There, among other things, the two Rudolph Valentino movies The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) and Blood and Sand emerged ( Blood and Sand, 1922) and its remake King of the Toreros ( Blood and Sand, 1941). The latter are based on the novel Bloody Arena ( Sangre y arena, 1908), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez had filmed the 1917 itself. He himself wrote the screenplay for Sangre y arena and led together with Ricardo de Baños also directed. Another well-known film adaptation of one of his works is The Temptress ( The Temptress, 1926) with Greta Garbo.

Works (selection)

  • La negra araña, 1892
  • ¡ Viva la república! , 1893
  • El femater, 1893
  • Los fanáticos, 1894
  • Arroz y tartana, 1894 ( digitized )
  • Flor de Mayo, 1895 (Eng. in: . 2 Valencia The two novels "Flor de Mayo " and " The Huerta ( Barraca ) ", Zurich 1928)
  • La barraca, 1898 ( digitized version ) (Eng. Flounder, Berlin 1922)
  • Entre naranjos, 1900 ( DigitalisatVorlage: Web archive / Maintenance / Nummerierte_Parameter )
  • Sónnica la cortesana, 1901
  • Cañas y Barro, 1902 ( DigitalisatVorlage: Web archive / Maintenance / Nummerierte_Parameter ) (Eng. malaria, Berlin 1929)
  • La catedral, 1903 ( digitized )
  • El intruso, 1904 (Eng. The intruder. A Jesuit novel, Berlin 1909)
  • La Bodega, 1904/ 05 (Eng. The Bodega, Berlin 1932)
  • La horda, 1905
  • La maja desnuda, 1906
  • Sangre y arena 1908 (Eng. The Arena, Munich 1910; later Bloody Arena) filmed several times, including Rouben Mamoulian in 1941 under the title King of the Toreros
  • Los muertos mandan, 1909 ( German command the dead, Leipzig 1925 and also as a Life orders, Munich 1952)
  • Luna Benamor, 1909 (Eng. The courtesan of Sagunto, Berlin 1914)
  • Argentina y sus grandezas, 1910
  • En busca del Gran Khan (Eng. The search for the Grosz - Khan, Zurich, Vienna and Prague 1934)
  • Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis 1914 ( DigitalisatVorlage: Web archive / Maintenance / Nummerierte_Parameter ) (Eng. The Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Berlin, 1922. )
  • Los Argonautas, 1915
  • Mare Nostrum (German Amphitrite, Zurich 1928)
  • Los enemigos de la mujer, 1919
  • Militarismo mejicano, 1920
  • El paraíso de las mujeres, 1922 ( digitized )
  • La Tierra de Todos (1922 ) ( digitized )
  • El papa del mar, 1925
  • A los pies de Venus, 1926
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