1. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Kosyanova Julia 201 group

2. Outline:
 Who is he?
 Biography
 Writing career
 Style of writing
 Bibliography
 Conclusion
 References

3. Who is He ?
 journalist, politician
and best-selling
Spanish novelist in
various genres
 He won recognition
in the English-
speaking world due to
Hollywood films
adapted from his
works.
(29 January 1867 –
28 January 1928)

4. Biography
 He was born in Valencia
in the family of merchant.
 He finished studying
law, but hardly practised.
 He was a militant
Republican partisan in
his youth and founded a
controversary
newspaper, “El Pueblo”
in his hometown.

5. Biography
 At the age of 18 he wrote an
antimonarchist poem for which he
was sent to prison—the first of his 30
punishments for political beliefs.
 He made many enemies and was shot
and almost killed in one dispute. The
bullet was caught in the clasp of his
belt.
 In 1898 Blasco Ibáñez was elected by a
landslide to the Spanish Parliament as
a deputy from Valencia, and this spared
him further persecution.

6. Biography

7. Biography
 He was married María
Blasco del Cacho.
 However, he had
several stormy love
affairs.
 She was his first wife,
but their life was not
very happy, she died
in 1925.
Wedding 18-11-1891

8. His wife
Their children: Mario, Libertad y
Julio César

9. Biography
 Disillusioned by his stint in Parliament,
Blasco Ibáñez withdrew from politics in
1907 and moved to Argentina, where
he lost a lot of money attempting to
create two agricultural colonies.
 Tired and disgusted with government
failures and inaction, he moved to Paris
at the beginning of World War I.

10. Biography
 He was a supporter of the Allies in
World War I.
 He finally settled as a self-exile in
Menton, France, and devoted himself fully
to writing.

11. Biography
 In 1917 he financed,
wrote, and co-directed
the earliest screen
version of "Blood and
Sand", his only venture
into cinema; after that he
was content to sell the
lucrative movie rights to
his books.
 He died in 1928 and
following his death his
remains were returned
to Valencia, as he had
requested.

12. Biography
 His epitaph reads: “I want to rest in the most
unpretentious valencian cemetery. Along with
the Mare Nostrum that filled of ideals my spirit,
I want that my body was mixed with the land of
Valencia that is the love of my loves."

13. Writing Career
 His first published novel
was “La araña negra”
('The Black Spider') in
1892
 His novels can be easily
classified into basic
genres: regional,
psychological, historical
and Cosmopolitan.

14. Writing career
 Ibáñez achieved his
greatest success from
the cosmopolitan
European novels, of
which Los cuatro jinetes
del Apocalipsis (The
Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse, 1916) is the
best. Other novels in this
genre include: Mare
Nostrum (1918),
and Los enemigos de la
mujer (1919), both of
which are also war novels.

15. Style of writing
 His works also show the influence
of Naturalism which he would most likely
have assimilated through reading Émile Zola.
 The characters in works are determined by
the interaction of heredity, environment and
social conditions.
 Later, his plots became more sensational
and melodramatic

16. Bibliography
 Fantasías, leyendas y tradiciones (1887)
Historia de la Revolución española en el siglo XIX (1893)
La araña negra (1892)
¡Viva la República! (1892)
Arroz y tartana (1894)
Cuentos valencianos (1896)
La condenada (1900)
Flor de mayo (1896)
La barraca (1898)
Entre naranjos (1900)
Cañas y barro (1902)
La catedral (1903)
El intruso (1904)
La bodega (1905)
La horda (1905)
Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis (1916)
Los muertos mandan (1908)
Sangre y arena (1908)
Luna Benamor (1909)
Los enemigos de la mujer (1919)
El paraíso de las mujeres (1922)
El papa del mar (1925)
A los pies de Venus (1926)
En busca del Gran Khan (1928)
En el país del arte (1896)
Oriente (1910)
La Argentina y sus grandezas (1910)
La vuelta al mundo de un novelista (1925)

17. Conclusion
 To sum up, I can say that Vicente Blasco
Ibáñez was an outstanding person of the
beginning of 20th century. In spite of all
difficult circumstances of this time, he
preferred to express his views, he loved
his country sincerely. More over, he was a
talented author raising important issues of
his time so that his works are still popular
and relevant.

18. References:
 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-
bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7268122
 http://www.ctspanish.com/literature/ibeneaz.htm
 https://www.escritores.org/biografias/444-vicente-
blasco-ibanez
 http://lanaveva.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/maria-
blasco-del-cacho-primera-esposa-de-vicente-blasco-
ibanez/
 http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/bib_autor/blascoiba
nez/pcuartonivel.jsp?conten=cronologia
 http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/68999/
Vicente-Blasco-Ibanez
 http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/35509.Vice
nte_Blasco_Ib_ez