This ebook is complete with linked Table of Content making navigation quicker and easier. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (January 29, 1867 – January 28, 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director. Making a teenage desire and complement the novels are set in the land of Valencia, Sonnica the Courtier (1901) recreates the heroic resistance of the city of Sagunto to the troops of Hannibal. Inserted into the narrative tradition that takes as scenarios historical episodes of past times and that runs throughout the century, from "The Last Days of Pompeii 'to' Quo Vadis', through 'Salammbo' Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) revived in this novel the magnificent, heroic world, refined and savage at once, of antiquity.
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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (January 29, 1867 – January 28, 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director. Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He is also known for his political activities. He finished studying law, but hardly practised. He divided his time between politics, literature. He was a fan of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. His life, it can be said, tells a more interesting story than his novels. He was a militant Republican partisan in his youth and founded a newspaper, El Pueblo (translated as either The Town or The People) in his hometown. The newspaper aroused so much controversy that it was brought to court many times and censored. He made many enemies and was shot and almost killed in one dispute. The bullet was caught in the clasp of his belt. He had several stormy love affairs. He volunteered as the 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 traveled to Argentina in 1909 where two new cities, Nueva Valencia and Cervantes, were created. He gave conferences on historical events and Spanish literature. Tired and disgusted with government failures and inaction, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez moved to Paris, France at the beginning of World War I. He was a supporter of the Allies in World War I. He died in Menton, France at the age of 61.
