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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (January 29, 1867 - January 28, 1928) was a Spanish novelist in Spanish, a screenwriter and sometime film director.

Born in Valencia, today he is best known for his twice-filmed World War I novel Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), but in his time he was a best-selling author in and out of Spain, also known by his controversial political activities.

He finished studying law, but hardly practised. He divided his life into politics, literature and his love for women of whom he was a deep admirer. He wrote with uncanny speed and energy. He was a fan of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.

His life can be said to be the better novel. He was a militant republican party in his youth and founded a newspaper, 'El Pueblo' (The Town) in his home town. The newspaper aroused so much controversy and disputes that it was brought to court many times and censored. He was shot and almost killed for its notoriety in one dispute. The bullet was caught in the clasp of his belt. He had stormy love afairs. He was a proofreader for the novel Noli Me Tangere, in which the Filipino patriot José Rizal expressed his contempt of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. He travelled to Argentina in 1909 where two new cities, Nueva Valencia and Cervantes, were created. He gave conferences on historical events and Spanish literature. Tired of failures beyond his control, Vicente Blasco Ibañez, went to Paris, coinciding with the beginning of World War I. He was a supporter of the Allies in the World War.

His themes include his land of Valencia.

He died in Menton, France.

Novels

• A los pies de Venus
• Argentina y sus grandezas
• Arroz y tartana [1]
• Cañas y barro [2], about life among the fishermen-peasants of the Albufera marshes in Valencia. Also a Spanish TV series.
• Cuentos valencianos
• El caballero de la virgen
• El intruso, about immigration to the Basque Country
• El oriente
• El papa del mar, about the antipope Benedict XIII, who established his court at Peñíscola.
• El paraíso de las mujeres [3]
• El préstamo de la difunta [4]
• En busca del Gran Khan
• Entre naranjos [5], another Valencian piece. Also a Spanish TV series.
• Fantasma de las alas de oro
• Flor de mayo
• La araña negra
• La Barraca [6], another Valencian piece.
• La bodega
• La catedral [7]
• La horda
• La maja desnuda, about Goya's Naked Maja.
• La Tierra de Todos [8]
• Los argonautas
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) [9], about Argentina and the First World War. Several times filmed. Best seller in the United States in 1919.
• Los muertos mandan
• Luna Benamor
• Mare Nostrum, a spy novel in the Mediterranean. Filmed in 1926.
• Novelas de la costa azul
• Blood and Sand (Sangre y arena), about a matador in a love triangle. Several times filmed.
• Vistas sudamericanas
• Voluntad de vivir
• Vuelta del mundo de un novelista, a travelogue.

External link

• Works by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez at Project Gutenberg

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