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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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1919. Ibanez, Spanish novelist and political activist, also wrote The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, which made him world famous. From the lowest ranks of poverty to unprecedented heights of riches and popular acclaim-thus was the career of Juan Gallardo, Spanish bull fighter. In telling his story, Ibanez has achieved a novel even more dramatic and powerful than his legendary Four Horsemen. From his boyhood Juan longed to be a bull fighter and, as he climbs the ladder step by step, the reader lives with him in the very atmosphere of the arena. No detail of the picture is spared-one can see and almost hear the actual battle-the crowds-the many characters that stream through the pages. And Juan himself, with his vanities, his superstitions, his daring attacks, his wounds and recoveries, emerges as real, vital and colorful as the sport to which he and many others dedicated their lives. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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The " Return"
"Blood and Sand" was one of the books I read as a young girl - recently, I have been on a kick of revisiting that time of my early literary life; re-enjoying many of them with a newly found appreciation.Some of them have amazed me with the knowledge of what I didn't get out of them at the time but should have; some were as I remembered; some much better under the microscope of time and maturity; but virtually all have given me to realize just how much we owe the authors of our books, the writers of our songs, the resulting films that give visual life.The old version of the movie with Tyrone Power is an excellent choice of a viewing experience.

"Blood and Sand" is a tale splendidly woven as a Spanish tapestry - around many native subjects and how one thing affects another.Poverty; insecurity that "spawns" and subsequently grimly "receives" adoration, either real and/or misplaced; loyalty, deceit, infidelity, struggle.You glimpse intimately the inconsistency of emotion dwelling within the character of a man brave enough to face death before a crowd in the afternoon, but who crumbles into superstitious fear at the sight of a serpent's picture in a book or of an old one-eyed woman scrubbing a floor immediately before another of his arena events.He cannot read or write, yet he possesses a library full of elegantly bound volumes he has never opened the covers of - and would not understand even if he did since his non-existent education has limited everything about him except his courage and agility.He is momentarily powerful enough to win a beautiful woman as a trophy; yet he knows he cannot keep her interest for long due to the fundamental differences between them that can never be bridged; still, he is willing to sacrifice his good wife and family for her in the meantime should it come to that in order to prolong the fantasy.His is the world of physical strength which will be enough - until it fails him. Perhaps even more poignant is the underlying message thread regarding the sport of the bull fight itself, delivered without malice, without judgment, but nonetheless without approval.

It takes you from the simple countryside to the sophisticated city of Madrid and all of it's "less-than-savory" elements; it takes you back again.You feel the "pull of the tides" that the matador felt between the two worlds he lives in - the one that gives him safety and love, the other of the money, the ego stroking, the danger, the ruthless competition that ultimately destroys them all since it is a life that cannot be sustained.

This book is an excellent choice for a read and deserves every accolade attributed to it, including my own tardy acknowledgment of Mr. Ibanez's timeless talent.

Ole!

A Yank in Spain's Opinion
I quite by accident came upon this very excellent book recently, when enjoying a drink with a fellow American in a restaurant in eastern Spain that was showing bullfighting on its television.We got to discussing the pros and cons of bullfighting, which has become quite controversial in Spain, and he suggested that if I ever had the chance I should read 'Blood and Sand,' which, frankly, I thought was a Hemingway book that I had already read.As coincidence would have it, I came across a used copy of the book, in English, a few days later, and promptly bought it.
I read it in a few days.It is compulsive, excellent reading for anyone the least bit interested in Spain or bullfighting.Written in 1908 by a journalist from Valencia who is now considered one of Spain's greatest novelists, published first in English in 1913, you would be hard pressed to know when reading the novel that it is as old as it is.The form is very modern and the plot can be quite gripping.The author, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, presents a fascinating, reasonably suspenseful 'story,' involving the eternal triangular romance, and supplements it with a mine of useful, detailed information on Spanish bullfighting, including all of the relevant bullfighting terms, in Spanish of course, defined very simply into English.
If you like(d) Hemingway's books about Spain, or even if you are interested in Spain, you will find this very tight (285 pages) and absorbing novel, in which the author does eventually but very subtly reveal a point of view, a compelling read.In fact, if you liked Hemingway's books about bullfighting and Spain, you will LOVE Ibanez, since 'Blood and Sand', made into a film in the 1940s starring Tyrone Power, is manifestly more vivid and realistic.The real deal for Aficionados and Espanophiles. ... Read more

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Colección Biblioteca Blasco Ibáñez. 2000. 368 p. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1919. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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CHAPTER I the tryst (In the Garden of the Chopdlc Expiatoire) They were to have met in the garden of the Chapelle Expiatoire at five o'clock in the afternoon, but Julio Des-noyers with the impatience of a lover who hopes to advance the moment of meeting by presenting himself before the appointed time, arrived an half hour earlier. The change of the seasons was at this time greatly confused in his mind, and evidently demanded some readjustment. Five months had passed since their last interview in this square had afforded the wandering lovers the refuge of a damp, depressing calmness near a boulevard of continual movement close to a great railroad station. The hour of the appointment was always five and Julio was accustomed to see his beloved approaching by the reflection of the recently lit street lamps, her figure enveloped in furs, and holding her muff before^her face as if it were a half^mask. Her sweet voice, greeting him, had breathed forth a cloud of vapor, white and tenuous,

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CONTENTS; PART I; CHAPTER FACE; I The Tryst-In the Garden of the Expiatory Chapel 3; II Madariaga, the Centaur 38; III The Desnoyers Family 79; IV The Cousin prom Berlin 118; V In Which Appear the Four Horsemen 145; PART II; I What Don Marcelo Envied 181; II New Life 200; III The Retreat 223; IV Near the Sacred Grotto 264; V The Invasion 293; VI The Banner of the Red Cross 352; PART III; I After the Marne 387; II In the Studio 401; III War 417; IV "No One Will Kill Him" 448; V The Burial Fields 46$

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Los muertos mandan fue escrita por Vicente Blasco Ibáñez en 1908.El escritor considera esta novela como parte de unanueva etapa de su vida cuando se instala en Madrid. Allí conoció una dama chilena, doña Elena Ortúzar esposa de un agregado comercial de la embajada de Chile.Doña Elena marcó de forma decisiva su vida.El escritor la visitaría constantemente en París, donde ésta se estableció con su esposo. Blasco menciona el cambio en su evolución literaria que ocurre durante sus viajes regulares entre Madrid y París en una carta: “Por aventuras particulares de mi vida viví entonces temporadas cortas y numerosas en París. Me iba de Madrid a París como el que toma el tranvía. Y a este continuo cambio de ambiente mental atribuyo estas tres novelas, que empezaron a marcar en su factura la novela tal como la hago actualmente”. Las novelas a las que se refiere son La maja desnuda (1906), Sangre y arena (1908) y Los muertos mandan (1909). Ésta novelas ofrecen una faz muy diferente de las novelas de tendencia que Vicente Blasco Ibáñez escribía antes.En su nueva etapa el escritorconcentra su interés en el estudio de la interioridad de sus personajes, por lo que no resulta extraño que estas tres novelas sean conocidas como novelas psicológicas. Estas novelas están vinculadas además por la constante temática amorosa que constituye el eje primordial en torno al que se construye el relato. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more