Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's Books(5)
La Barraca
Literature Sobre las tierras del tío Barret, que se atrevió a romper las cadenas y a cortar la cabeza del amo, don Salvador, con la consiguiente ruina de su familia, pesa una maldición. Convertidas en símbolo de la lucha contra los terratenientes, nadie debe cultivarlas. La hostilidad se desata contra un forastero, Batiste Borrull, que, con el sueño de sacar a su familia adelante, decide arrendarlas, desatando así una tempestad de odio y resentimiento que culmina trágicamente.En la mejor tradición de la novela naturalista, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) se demora en LA BARRACA (1898) en el análisis de la psicología colectiva y achaca la crueldad de los personajes a los bajos instintos y a la brutalidad del medio en que viven. En estas circunstancias adversas, la lucha del maestro, don Joaquín, para educar a sus alumnos, resulta infructuosa. Blood and Sand
Fantasy One of the secrets of the immense power exercised by the novels of Vicente Blasco Ibá?ez is that they are literary projections of his dynamic personality. Not only the style, but the book, is here the man. This is especially true of those of his works in which the thesis element predominates, and in which the famous author of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse appears as a novelist of ideas-in-action. It is, of course, possible to divide his works into the "manners" or "periods" so dear to the literary cataloguers, and it may thus be indicated that there are such fairly distinct genres as the regional novel, the sociological tale and the psychological study; a convenient classification of this sort would place among the regional novels such masterpieces as La Barraca and Ca?as y Barro,—among the novels of purpose such powerful writings as La Catedral, La Bodega and Sangre y Arena,—among the psychological studies the introspective La Maja Desnuda.