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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (, 29 January 1867 – 28 January 1928) was a journalist, politician, and a bestselling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-speaking world is from Hollywood films that were adapted from his works. Biography He was born in Valencia. At university, he studied law and graduated in 1888 but never went into practice since he was more interested in politics, journalism, and literature. He was a particular fan of Miguel de Cervantes. In politics, he was a militant Republican partisan in his youth, and he founded the newspaper ''El Pueblo'' (translated as ''The People'') in his hometown, in which he developed a Republican populist political movement known as '. The newspaper aroused so much controversy that it was taken to court many times. In 1896, he was arrested and sentenced to a few months in prison. He made many enemies. He was shot, and almost killed, in one dispute; the bullet was caught in the clasp o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Honoré De Balzac
Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly ; ; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence ''La Comédie humaine'', which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his ''Masterpiece, magnum opus''. Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of Literary realism, realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous writers, including the novelists Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Henry James, and filmmakers François Truffaut and Jacques Rivette. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood And Sand (novel)
''Blood and Sand'' () is a 1908 novel by the Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Plot Set in the world of Spanish bullfighting, the novel follows Juan Gallardo, a successful bullfighter who has made his way out of poverty. His life changes for the worse when he takes a mistress and is discovered by his wife. When the wife leaves him, he loses the will to continue bullfighting. His wife eventually convinces him to take part in one last bullfighting event, in which he is severely injured. Themes The novel is written in a realist mode and emphasises the psychology of its characters. It was intended as an attack on bullfighting as an institution. It portrays the cheering crowd as the true villain of the story. The main character was inspired by , a popular bullfighter who died from injuries in the arena in 1894. Reception The novel was a major popular success and made Blasco Ibáñez famous. It contributed to creating an international image about Spain and Spanish bullfighting. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valencia Cathedral
Valencia Cathedral, at greater length the Metropolitan Cathedral–Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady of Valencia (, ), also known as St Mary's Cathedral, is a Catholic church in Valencia, Spain. The cathedral was consecrated in 1238 by the first bishop of Valencia after the Reconquista, Pere d'Albalat, Archbishop of Tarragona, and was dedicated to Saint Mary by order of James I the Conqueror. It was built over the site of the former Visigothic cathedral, which under the Moors had been turned into a mosque. Valencian Gothic is the predominant architectural style of the cathedral, although it also contains Romanesque, French Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical elements. The cathedral contains numerous 15th-century paintings, some by local artists (such as Jacomart), others by the Italian Renaissance artists Francesco Pagano and Paolo da San Leocadio, both commissioned by the Valencian Pope Alexander VI who, when still a cardinal, also made the request t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Tribunal Of The Plain Of Valencia
The Water Tribunal of the plain of Valencia, also known as the Tribunal of Waters (), is an institution of justice to settle disputes arising from the use of irrigation water by farmers in several Irrigation Communities () and canals (''Quart'', ''Benà ger i Faitanar'', ''Tormos'', ''Mislata'', ''Mestalla'', ''Favara'', ''Rascanya'', ''Rovella'' and ''Xirivella'') in the Horta de València. It is the world’s oldest court and the oldest democratic institution in Europe. In 2009 it was chosen along with the Council of Wise Men of the plain of Murcia as intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO. Proceedings of the Tribunal The Tribunal is a customary court. It consists of one representative, called ''sÃndic'' (syndic), from each of the Irrigation Communities—nine in total—and one among them is elected president for a period of two years. Every Thursday, the Tribunal meets in public and an administrative session at the Casa Vestidor at the Plaça de la Mare de Déu of Valencia t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Zola
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, ; ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of Naturalism (literature), naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of Naturalism (theatre), theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined ''J'Accuse...!'' Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prizes in Literature in 1901 and 1902. Early life Zola was born in Paris in 1840 to François Zola (originally Francesco Zolla) and Émilie Aubert. His father was an Italian engineer with some Greeks, Greek ancestry, who was born in Venice in 1795, and engineered the Zola Dam in Aix-en-Provence; his mother was French. The family moved to Aix-en-Provence in the Provence, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naturalism (literature)
Naturalism is a literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary. Literary naturalism emphasizes observation and the scientific method in the fictional portrayal of reality. Naturalism includes detachment, in which the author maintains an impersonal tone and disinterested point of view; determinism, which is defined as the opposite of free will, in which a character's fate has been decided, even predetermined, by impersonal forces of nature beyond human control; and a sense that the universe itself is indifferent to human life. The novel would be an experiment where the author could discover and analyze the forces, or scientific laws, that influenced behavior, and these included emotion, heredity, and environment. The movement largely traces to the theories of French author Émile Zola. Background Literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shack (Blasco Ibáñez Novel)
''The Shack'' or ''The Hut'' (Spanish: ''La barraca'') is an 1898 novel by the Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Its English translation sold over a million copies.Altisent p.259 It was adapted into a Mexican film '' The Shack'' in 1945 and a Televisión Española (acronym TVE, branded tve, "Spanish Television") is Spain's national state-owned public television broadcaster and the oldest regular television service in the country. It was also the first regular television service in Equatorial Guinea. T ... television series '' La barraca'' in 1979. References Bibliography * Martha Eulalia Altisent. ''A Companion to the Twentieth-century Spanish Novel''. Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2008. 1898 novels 19th-century Spanish novels Spanish novels adapted into films Spanish novels adapted into television shows Novels by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez {{1890s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flor De Mayo (novel)
''Cattleya trianae'' (Lind. & Rchb. fil), also known as ''Flor de Mayo'' ("May flower") or "Christmas orchid", is a plant of the family Orchidaceae. It grows as an epiphytic orchid, with succulent leaves, endemic to Colombia where it was nominated as the national flower in November 1936. That year, the National Academy of History of Argentina asked the Latin American countries to participate in an exhibition with the representative flowers of each country. The Colombian government gave the botanist Emilio Robledo the task to designate the most representative flowering plant of the country. The choice of ''Cattleya trianae'' was made for two main reasons: *The lip is yellow, blue and red, in the same way as the Colombian flag. *The species was named after the 19th century Colombian botanist José Jerónimo Triana. The species grows at 1500–2000 meters above sea level, in Cloud forests. It is an endangered species due to habitat destruction. The diploid chromosome numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costumbrismo
''Costumbrismo'' (in Catalan: ''costumisme''; sometimes anglicized as costumbrism, with the adjectival form costumbrist) is the literary or pictorial interpretation of local everyday life, mannerisms, and customs, primarily in the Hispanic scene, and particularly in the 19th century. ''Costumbrismo'' is related both to artistic realism and to Romanticism, sharing the Romantic interest in expression as against simple representation and the romantic ''and'' realist focus on precise representation of particular times and places, rather than of humanity in the abstract.Antonio Reina PalazónEl Costumbrismo en la Pintura Sevillana del Siglo XIX, Biblioteca Virtual Miguel Cervantes. Accessed online 2010-01-22. It is often satiric and even moralizing, but unlike mainstream realism does not usually offer or even imply any particular analysis of the society it depicts. When not satiric, its approach to quaint folkloric detail often has a romanticizing aspect. ''Costumbrismo'' can be f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesuits
The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome. It was founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola and six companions, with the approval of Pope Paul III. The Society of Jesus is the largest religious order in the Catholic Church and has played significant role in education, charity, humanitarian acts and global policies. The Society of Jesus is engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 countries. Jesuits work in education, research, and cultural pursuits. They also conduct retreats, minister in hospitals and parishes, sponsor direct social and humanitarian works, and promote Ecumenism, ecumenical dialogue. The Society of Jesus is consecrated under the patron saint, patronage of Madonna della Strada, a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it is led by a Superior General of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Fine Arts (Valencia)
Museum of Fine Arts (French: ; German: ) may refer to: Asia Japan * Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan Philippines * National Museum of Fine Arts (Manila) Taiwan * Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung * National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung * Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei * Lingnan Fine Arts Museum, Taipei * Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei Europe Austria * Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Belgium * Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels * Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp * Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent * Museum of Fine Arts, Ostend * Musée des Beaux-Arts Tournai France * Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers * Musée des Beaux-Arts de Besançon * Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux * Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest, Brest * Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen * Musée des beaux-arts de Chambéry * Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon * Museum of Fine Arts, Dole * Museum of Grenoble * , La Rochelle * Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille * Museum of Fine Arts o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
