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About the Author: Vicente Blasco IbÃ¡Ã±ez

Vicente Blasco IbÃ¡Ã±ez (January 29, 1867 â€“ 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 JosÃ© 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 IbÃ¡Ã±ez 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.

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Paperback, Published in Apr 2008 by Book Jungle

ISBN10: 1605974943 | ISBN13: 9781605974941

Page count: 364

Blasco wrote Spanish realist novels and was also a director and screenwriter. He is best known for his novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ((Los Cuatro Jinettes del Apocalipsis). Set in Europe during World War I a young South American artist in search of himself is living in Paris. He becomes involved in the fight to defeat the Germans. The descriptions of the various locals are excellent. Blasco's insights into the mood in prewar Germany and of France during the war are a fascinating look at an important time in European history.

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