Outspoken against the monarchy, Blasco Ibáñez published a radical republican journal, El pueblo, and was imprisoned 30 times for political activism. Set in his home of Valencia, his early novels included Flor de mayo (1895, The Mayflower), La barraca (1898, The Cabin), Cañas y barro (1902, Reeds and Mud), and La catedral (1903, and The Shadow of the Cathedral). He traveled in South America, returning to Spain at the outbreak of World War I. He was a staunch supporter and political propagandist for the Allies during the war, and his novel, Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis (1916, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), was an international success. He died a voluntary political exile. |
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