 He reflected his political, social and anti-religious ideas in "La catedral") ("The Cathedral") or "La bodega" ("The Warehouse"), although his fame is due to a great extent to "Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis", a work which deals with family dramas during the Great War.Valencian works of Blasco are preferred by critics.He has been compared with Émile Zola because he shares with the French novelist a subversive attitude, a predilection for squalid environs, and a preoccupation with biological inheritance.