Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

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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 soon after joined the Republican Party. In Paris , where he had to live in exile for some time , he got to know French naturalism , which had a strong influence on his later works, in particular on his novel Arroz y tartana (1894). Also in 1894, Blasco Ibáñez founded the daily El pueblo , which represented his political platform, first through the articles of the republican leader Francisco Pi i Margalland later, after separating from him, through his own contributions, which soon gave him enormous prestige, especially through his bitter and hard struggle against the Spanish governments of that time ( Gobiernos de la Restauración ), in the Valencian population.

After he was convicted, imprisoned and again exiled (1896), Blasco Ibáñez returned to Spain two years later and was elected to the Spanish Cortes for six legislative terms . In 1908 he decided to withdraw from politics and seek his fortune in Argentina . After a few years, however, he returned to Europe and moved again to Paris. There he wrote his most famous work in 1914, Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis . In 1921 he decided to move to a house in Nice that had belonged to him for a long time. There he wrote his last novels, which were better received by the public than his earlier works, which reported the constant political struggle with the government and the unjust and unsocial conditions of his time, such as his work La barraca from 1898.

meaning

Blasco Ibáñez was a writer who had strong ties to French naturalism and especially wanted to draw attention to social and political discrepancies. His unique imagination and his extremely detailed descriptions of landscapes and people made him the last truly great author of 19th century realism .

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

His books have often been made into films, not least in Hollywood . Among other things, the two Rudolph Valentino films The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) and Blood and Sand ( Blood and Sand , 1922) as well as its remake King of the Toreros ( Blood and Sand , 1941) were made there. The latter are based on the novel Bloody Arena ( Sangre y arena , 1908), which Vicente Blasco Ibáñez had filmed himself in 1917. He himself wrote the script for Sangre y arena and also directed it with Ricardo de Baños . Another well-known film adaptation of one of his works is Demon Woman ( The Temptress , 1926) with Greta Garbo .

Works (selection)

La araña negra (1892), frontispiece of Vol. I.
  • La araña negra , 1892
  • ¡Viva la república! , 1893
  • El femater , 1893
  • Los fanáticos , 1894
  • Arroz y tartana , 1894 ( digitized )
  • Flor de Mayo , 1895 (German in: Valencia. The two 2 novels "Flor de Mayo" and "Die Huerta (Barraca)", Zurich 1928)
  • La barraca , 1898 ( digitized version ) (Ger. The floe , Berlin 1922)
  • Entre naranjos , 1900 ( digitized version ( memento of March 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive ))
  • Sónnica la cortesana , 1901
  • Cañas y Barro , 1902 ( digitized version ( memento of March 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive )) (German mala fever , Berlin 1929)
  • La catedral , 1903 ( digitized version )
  • El intruso , 1904 ( Eng . The intruder. A Jesuit novel , Berlin 1909)
  • La bodega , 1904/05 (German: Die Bodega , Gutenberg Book Guild , Berlin 1932)
  • La horda , 1905
  • La maja desnuda , 1906
  • Sangre y arena , 1908 (Eng. Die Arena , Munich 1910; later also Bloody Arena ) filmed several times, a. a. 1941 by Rouben Mamoulian under the title King of the Toreros
  • Los muertos mandan , 1909 (German: Die Toten command , Leipzig 1925 and also as Das Leben commands , Munich 1952)
  • Luna Benamor , 1909 (German: The Hetaera of Sagunt , Berlin 1914)
  • Argentina y sus grandezas , 1910
  • En busca del Gran Khan (German: The Search for Grosz-Khan , Zurich, Vienna and Prague 1934)
  • Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis , 1914 ( digitized version ( memento from March 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive )) (German: Die apokalyptischen Reiter , 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

literature

  • Jeffrey Thomas Oxford: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Color symbolism in selected novels. Lang, New York et al. a. 1997 (= American university studies. Series 2, Romance languages ​​and literature; 223). ISBN 0-8204-3358-6
  • Kian-Harald Karimi: 'So, German, open this book.' Enemy and friend images in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 'Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis (1916) , in: Heroic misery. The First World War in the intellectual, literary and pictorial consciousness of European cultures. Edited by Gislinde Seybert u. Thomas Stauder. Frankf./M. et al. (Peter Lang) 2014, Part II, pp. 1227–1257, ISBN 978-3-631-63662-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mare Nostrum group photo Blasco Ibarez with actresses Innenn. Illustrated Film Week 1926, accessed on May 9, 2020 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish writer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Valencia , Spain
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1928
Place of death Menton , France