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布拉斯科·伊巴涅斯的小说创作可分为三个时期:
第一时期(1894~1902)的作品主要描写巴伦西亚地区人民的生活和风俗习惯,地方色彩浓厚。如写资产阶级的《稻米与单桅渔船》(1894),写渔民生活的《五月花》(1895),短篇集《巴伦西亚故事》(1896)和写农村生活的《茅屋》(1898),以及写农村青年的爱情的《芦苇和泥淖》(1902)等。
第二时期(1903~1909)的作品题材比较广阔,采用自然主义或印象主义的手法,描写社会黑暗,反映劳动人民的痛苦,对统治者和教会的压迫发出了抗议。作品有《大教堂》(1903)、《闯入者》(1904)、《酿酒厂》(1905)、《游民》(1905)。
第三时期(1910年以后)的作品题材更为广泛,其中以第一次世界大战为背景的《启示录的四骑士》(1916)曾风行欧美各国。这一时期的作品还有以美洲为题材的小说《觅寻金羊毛船上的水手们》(1914)、《所有人的土地》(1922)和《卡拉菲娅女王》(1923);描写战争的小说《我们的地中海》(1918)、《女人的仇敌》(1919)、《战争故事集》以及探险小说《女人的天堂》(1922)。他的游记有《一个小说家的世界之行》(1924)。
一八六七年一月二十九日,他出生在巴伦百亚省一个商人的家庭,青年时代在首都马德里学法律,积极参加各种民众集会,成为一个激进的共和主义者.一八八九年,因牵涉一桩政治密谋事件被迫流亡法国.一八九一年回国,创办具有共和主义思想的《人民报》.一八九五年因反对西班牙对殖民地的战争,遭到政府通缉,逃离巴伦西亚.一八九八年被捕,监禁了十三个月,因巴伦西亚再次选举他为议会代表而获释;他曾连续六次被选为这个议会的代表.一九○三年后主要从事文学创作.晚年因组织反对君主独栽政体活动再次流亡法国,一九二八年一月,卒于法国芒通.
伊巴涅斯 - 小说
伊巴涅斯的小说创作基本上可分为三个时期,第一时期(1894一1902)的作品主要描写作家故乡巴伦西亚地区人民的生活和风俗习惯,地方色彩很浓.著名的有写渔民生活的长篇小说《五月花》,写农村生活的短篇集《茅屋》,以及写农村青年爱情的《芦苇和泥淖》,其中《五月花》,《芦苇和泥淖》国内已有了译本出版.第二时期(1903一1909)的作品,题材比较广泛,用左拉式的自然主义或印象主义的手法,描写社会黑暗,反映劳动人民的痛苦,对统治者和教会的压迫发出了抗议.著名的作品有《大教堂》(1903),《闯入者》(1904),《酿酒厂》(1905),《游民》(1905),《死者的嘱咐》(1909)等等.第三个时期(1910年以后)的作品题材更为广泛,其中以第一次世界大战为背景的《启示录的四骑士》(1916)曾风行欧美各国,
使作者获得了世界的名誉.
《碧血黄沙》(1908)是伊巴涅斯创作第二个时期的重要作品.在这部长篇小说里,作家以充满同情的叙述笔调,磅礴撼人的气势,描绘了西班牙斗牛士的生活,展示了一幅雄伟生动的西班牙风俗民情的长卷.主人公加拉尔陀从一个孤苦伶仃的小鞋匠成为一个著名的斗牛大师,被贵族妇人所引
诱,后来又被抛弃,以至在斗牛场上惨死.作者描写斗牛场面生动紧张,动人心魄,同时论述了斗牛的历史根源,社会基础,政治作用,心理影响,判定这种娱乐是一种时代错误.在这个以斗牛加恋爱为主要框架的故事里,作者借国家和小羽毛这两个人物表达了政治思想,用他们的言行,剖析了当时整个西班牙严酷的现实生活.这无疑加深了小说的思想性.但是,作者的政治理想仍然是朦胧抽象的,
国家的最高政治观点也只是"教育救国",象小羽毛这样拿起刀枪和反动政府英勇斗争的"革命者",作者却安排了一个被自己人暗杀的结局,因此,在表现作者共和主义思想方面,远远不如他对于斗牛场面的精湛描绘.改写本力图以最大的可能保持这一方面的特色.尽管对于斗牛过程的细
腻描写达到了自然主义式的程度,但对于表现斗牛是一种野蛮的娱乐这样的主题,仍然有着不可忽视的积极作用.因此,对于评断斗牛业的是非,了解它,熟悉它,并在心灵中染上鲜明的印象,就显得必不可少了.
Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis. Filmed in 1921 as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, it was filmed again in 1962, reset in World War II. However, in his time he was a best-selling author inside and outside of Spain, and also known for his controversial political activities. While Sangre y arena (Blood and Sand) and Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis are his most popular novels, particularly outside of Spain, his Valencian novels such as La barraca and Cañas y barro are the ones most valued by scholars.
He finished studying law, but hardly practiced. He divided his time between politics, literature and dalliances with women, of whom he was a deep admirer. He wrote with uncanny speed and energy. He was a fan of Miguel de Cervantes.
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 José Rizal expressed his contempt of the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. He travelled 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 Ibáñez moved to Paris at the beginning of World War I.
He was a supporter of the Allies in World War I.
His themes include his native Valencia.
He died in Menton, France, in 1928 at the age of 61, in the residence of Fontana Rosa (also named the House of Writers, dedicated to Cervantes, Dickens and Shakespeare) that he built.
Woman Triumphant, a translation of La maja desnuda by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez into English
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A los pies de Venus
Argentina y sus grandezas
Arroz y tartana at Project Gutenberg
Cañas y barro, about life among the fishermen-peasants of the Albufera marshes in Valencia. Also a Spanish TV series.
Cuentos valencianos
El caballero de la virgen
El intruso, about immigration to the Basque Country
El oriente
El papa del mar, about the antipope Benedict XIII, who established his court at Peñíscola.
El paraíso de las mujeres at Project Gutenberg
El préstamo de la difunta at Project Gutenberg
En busca del Gran Khan
Entre naranjos, another Valencian piece. Also a Spanish TV series.
Fantasma de las alas de oro
Flor de mayo
La araña negra
La Barraca at Project Gutenberg
La bodega
La Catedral at Project Gutenberg
La horda
La maja desnuda, novel with title inspired on Goya's painting Nude ""Maja"".
La Tierra de Todos at Project Gutenberg
La Pared
Los argonautas
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis), about Argentina and the First World War. Several times filmed. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse at Project Gutenberg Best seller in the United States in 1919.
Los muertos mandan
Luna Benamor
Mare Nostrum, a spy novel in the Mediterranean. Filmed in 1926.
Novelas de la costa azul
Blood and Sand (Sangre y arena), about a matador in a love triangle. Filmed several times.
Vistas sudamericanas
Voluntad de vivir
Vuelta del mundo de un novelista, a travelogue.