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Vicente Blasco was born on 29 January in 1867 in Valencia, Spain to a family of merchants.
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Vicente Blasco Ibánez (29 January 1867 28 January 1928) was a journalist, politician and best-selling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-speaking world is from Hollywood films adapted from his works. Sangre y arena (es) (Blood and Sand, 1908), follows the career of Juan Gallardo from his poor beginnings as a child in Seville, to his rise to celebrity as a matador in Madrid, where he falls under the spell of the seductive Doña Sol, which leads to his downfall. Ibáñez directed a 65-minute film version in 1917. There are three remakes made in 1922, 1941 and 1989, respectively. His greatest personal success probably came from the novel Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) (1916), which tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War. When this was filmed by Rex Ingram in 1921, it became the vehicle that propelled Rudolph Valentino to stardom. Rex Ingram also filmed Mare Nostrum a spy story from 1918 - in 1926 as a vehicle for his wife Alice Terry at his MGM studio in Nice. Michael Powell claimed in his memoirs that he had his first experience of working in films on that production. A further two Hollywood films can be singled out, as they were the first films that were made by Greta Garbo following her arrival at MGM in Hollywood The Torrent (based on Entre naranjos from 1900), and The Temptress (derived from La Tierra de Todos from 1922). Blood and Sand Translator: Frances Douglas Mare Nostrum Translator: Charlotte Brewster Jordan The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Translator: Charlotte Brewster Jordan
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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928). España. Nació en Valencia el 29 de enero de 1867. Estudió Derecho pero no ejerció esa profesión y se dedicó a la política y la literatura. Con veintiún años se inició en la Masonería el 6 de febrero de 1887 y adoptó el nombre simbólico de Danton en la Logia Unión nº 14 de Valencia y después en la logia Acacia nº 25. Allí recibió 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 Ibáñez murió en Menton (Francia) el 28 de enero 1928.
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Vicente Blasco was born on 29 January in 1867 in Valencia, Spain to a family of merchants.
In 1883, at age 16, as a student at the University of Valencia, Vicente Blasco left home and ran away to Madrid. In Madrid Ibáñez served as secretary to Manuel Fernández y González, a famous author of serial novels, and at this time developed a strong interest in politics as well as in writing. From Gonzalez "he mastered the forceful descriptions of people and places" which remains as one of the most widely praised characteristics of his fiction. In 1884, Blasco returned to Valencia and finished his degree at the University. He later went on to obtain a licentiate degree in civil and canonical law in 1888.
In his native Valencia Vicente Blasco participated in Federal Republican Party meetings and it is there where he discovered his talent of persuasion and an oratorical capacity gained the attention of the public. Later because of his participation in various outcries for justice he had to abandon the city and move to Paris from 1890 to 1891. In Paris, he discovered his journalistic side by writing for some newspapers. Upon returning to Valencia he wrote La Araña Negra, a novel directed against the Jesuits that created problems for Ibáñez and forced him to defend himself in court.
Continuing with his political activities, he founded the El Pueblo newspaper in which he constantly published articles as well as writing folletones or serialized novels. These novels reflected the world of his readers and ended up becoming very successful and popular. He would also publish Arroz y Tartana and Flor de mayo.
For his unpatriotic activities against the Spanish-American War he had to flee to Italy where he wrote one of the greatest travel guides: En el País del Arte.
The naturalist style of Blasco Ibáñez is clearly shown in his novellas valencianas like La Barraca, Entre Naranjos, and Cañas y Barro. He also wrote some novellas with a social leaning like La cathedral, La horda, which was published by Editorial Promoteo, the publishing house which he co-owned with a friend. His publishing house also printed the books of Emile Zola, Tolstoi, Dumas, Hugo, Voltaire, Darwin and Marx.
From 1898 to 1905 he was a deputy in the Spanish Parliament in Madrid where he started a friendship with the Beinllure brothers, Mariano (a sculptor) and Juan Antonio (a painter).
After this time, he dedicated himself completely to literature and the promotion of his publishing house. In 1908 he wrote one of his most well-known works, Sangre y Arena, which would later be adapted by Hollywood to the silver screen in a movie starring Rudolph Valentino. He traveled to Argentina to participate in a conference and also passed through Chile. From this trip was born the work Argentina y sus Grandezas, another one his great travel guides. During this time in America, he tried to create a colony of Valencian farmers in the area of Paraná. There, he founded the colonies of Nueva Valencia and Cervantes but failed in his intent and returned to Spain practically bankrupt. Ironically, these colonies have turned into the most important rice-growing regions in this South American country.
Upon returning to Europe right before the outbreak of WWI in 1914, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez began to write. With the war now as his source of inspiration he began a trilogy of the "Great War": Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocolypsis, Mare Nostrum and Los Enemigos de la Mujer. The first of these didn't receive any attention in Europe and was outshone by the book All Quiet on the Western Front by E. M. Remarque. But in the US, his Four Horsemen achieved a level of success not seen since the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The book, The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, premiered in 1921 and starred Rudolph Valentino. The success of the film was incredible and a wave of popularity for Blasco Ibáñez swept across America.
After this success, he returned to Europe and moved into a house he owned located along the Côte d'Azur that he named Fontana Rosa en memory of the Malvarrosa beach in Valencia. During this time he wrote books upon commission (he would earn an advance of $50, 000 for each one). Not being satisfied with this lifestyle he decided to take a trip around the world which would later be the inspiration and source for another book: La Vuelta al Mundo de un Novelista or The Trip Around the World of a Novelist.
He directly confronted the dictator Primo de Rivera and the figure of King Alfonso XIII with the publication of some flyers: Una nación secuestrada (El terror militaristic en España); Lo Que será la República española; Por España y contra el Rey (Alfonso XIII desenmascarado). These flyers were well received by the French Republic as well as a lawsuit (which did not prosper) filed by the Spanish government claiming slander. Blasco Ibáñez created and financed the magazine España con Honra (Spain with Honor), a bulletin of the opposition in exile to the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. Blasco Ibáñez also renounced his candidacy to form part of the Royal Spanish Academy and began to work on his autobiography, La Juventud del Mundo which remained unfinished due to a pneumonia which led to his death in Menton, France.
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Quotations:
All live and die believing that they have known love, thinking it is a common thing, because they confuse it with animal satisfaction; but love is a privilege, love is a lottery of fate, like wealth, like beauty, which only a small minority enjoy. .. .
Poor Humanity, crazed with fear, was fleeing in all directions on hearing the thundering pace of the Plague, War, Hunger and Death.
In 1891 Vicente Blasco Ibáñez married to his cousin María Blasco Cacho, who was to endure his tempestuous nature and stormy career. She bore him five children and died in 1925 when Blasco took his second wife, Elena Ortúzar Bulnes, daughter of a Chilean general.