BLASCO IBANEZ (Blasco Ibanez), Vicente [21 or 29.1.1867, Valencia, — 16.1. 1928, Mentona] — Spanish writer. He's from a merchant family. Graduated from legal. In 1885 he appeared in the press as a journalist. Becoming the leader of the left-wing movement in Valencia, he published gas. "El Pueblo" ("The People", 1891), was persecuted, repeatedly in exile abroad. In 1898-1909, he became the Dep. of Parliament from the republican party and became close to the socialists. He later moved to a moderately
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BLASCO IBANEZ (Blasco Ibanez), Vicente [21 or 29.1.1867, Valencia, — 16.1. 1928, Mentona] — Spanish writer. He's from a merchant family. Graduated from legal. In 1885 he appeared in the press as a journalist. Becoming the leader of the left-wing movement in Valencia, he published gas. "El Pueblo" ("The People", 1891), was persecuted, repeatedly in exile abroad. In 1898-1909, he became the Dep. of Parliament from the republican party and became close to the socialists. He later moved to a moderately liberal position. During the 1st World War (1914-18) he actively defended the Entente. In 1923, after the establishment of a military dictatorship in Spain, he emigrated to France. He has repeatedly expressed support for the young Soviet state.
In 1894 B.I. began to publish a series of "Valencian" novels and short stories, usually referred to as "regional" literature. But, in contrast to the writers-“regionalists”, who idealized the patriarchal life of the Spanish province, he solves national social problems from the standpoint of petty-bourgeois democracy: he exposes the corrupting power of money (the novel Arroz y tartana, 1894), bourgeois parliamentarians (the novel In the Orange Gardens, Entre naranjos, 1900), sympathetically depicts the people and proves the social injustice of public order (the novels “May Flower” – “Flroz y tartana”, 18900”, “Laracino” and “Laraziana” (1998), “Laraziana de l’s, 18900”, “Laraziana” and “Laraziana” baro, “Laraziana” (1998”, “Laraziana, 182)). In the early novels of this cycle, the influence of naturalism is felt; in the most mature of them, the novel Khutor, B.I. appears as a master of critical realism. The writer himself described the work of 1903-05 as socially tendentious. The novels La Catedral (1903), El intruso (1904), La Bodega (1905), and La Horda (1905) raise fundamental questions of Spanish life, including the problem of revolution. In these novels, the driving principle was the social antagonism between the people and their oppressors; thereby, B. I. overcame the usual scheme of family and household romance, permeated his work with publicism. In 1906-09 B.I. created a cycle of philosophical and psychological novels: “Nagaya Maha” (“La maja desnuda”, 1906), “Blood and Sand” (“Sangre y arena”, 1908), “The Dead command” (“Los muertos mandan”, 1909), “Luna Benamor” (“Luna Benamor”, 1909). Rejecting the depiction of significant social conflicts, he focused on the psychological analysis of the experiences of a lonely gifted person who came into conflict with society. The crudely tendentious and sometimes chauvinistic coverage of the events of World War 1 determined the artistic failure of the novels Los cuatro jineles del Apocalipsis (1916), Mare nostrum (1918), and others. Numerous novels of the 20s are significantly inferior to previous works. B. I. ("Land for all" - "La tierra de todos", 1922, "His Maritime Holiness" - "El papa del mar", 1925, etc.). The most interesting novel is In Search of the Great Khan (En busca del Gran Khan, 1928, posthumously), dedicated to the personality of Christopher Columbus.