Call Number:

C1315

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1922-1923 (inclusive)

Creator:

Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente, 1867-1928

Form:

Manuscripts, Spanish -- 20th century. and Typescripts -- 20th century.

Abstract:

Consists of a small collection of correspondence and mansucripts of the Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was a Spanish realist novelist, screenwriter, and occasional film director. He is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel Los Cuatro Jinetes Apocalipsis. It was the basis of the 1921 film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

The collection consists of correspondence and two typed essays of the Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Correspondents include the Irish historian Clifford Smyth and the Venezuelan-born American journalist and traveler Thomas Russell Ybarra. The first essay is titled "La novela española moderna y sus enfermedades" (9 pp.). Typed in blue ink, it contains holograph corrections and annotations, and is signed by the author. The second essay, titled "Don Quijote y el pueblo Americano" (6 pp.), contains holograph corrections and annotations, but is not signed.