author texts: Rosa Seser Pérez. Arxiu Municipal de Dénia.
Images: Arxiu Municipal de Dénia.
Last month we began to publicize the book donation interesting that Mr. Juan Blanquer has made to the Municipal Archives and Library now continue with the work: History of the War of Europe 1914, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Published in Valencia in the Editorial Prometeo between 1914 and 1919.
Altogether this work is nine volumes, of which the first three were written by Vicente Blasco Ibanez. These first three volumes are the ones who owned the Blanquer Vives family and donated to the Municipal Archives. The work, as it appears on the cover of the first volume, was bought at the kiosk or center subscriptions José Llorens de Dénia.
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, a reporter for the First World War.
Vicente Blasco Ibanez (Valencia, 1867-Menton (France), 1928)
Exalted spirit and with a huge vitality, Blasco Ibáñez dedicated his life to politics, journalism and literature, which tried in different styles. Republican convinced, clearly expressed their ideals in the newspaper The village, Which he founded in 1894.
Earlier this year 1914, Blasco Ibáñez left his failed projects colonization of new lands in Argentina to go to Paris. The July 21 1914 European War broke out, and Blasco entered the service of the French government, against the German invaders, and devoted himself to exercise a war correspondent, he visited the front and was in the firing line.
The History of the Europe War of 1914 It was published just four months after the start of World War I, and every week offered the chronicle of events in fascicles acquired by subscription, which then were bound in books.
The three volumes that Blasco Ibáñez wrote include the antecedents of the war and the attack of Sarajevo, the invasion of Belgium, the war of Alsace and Lorraine, the famous battle of the Marne and ends with the battle of the Aisne. All this written in a very agile style with description of battles, statements of soldiers, of civilian victims, of politicians, and with thousands of photographs, drawings, engravings, maps and plans of battles.
President of the Republic of France, Raymond Poincasé, Blasco commissioned with what he had seen write a novel of war. From those experiences of war, death, famine and plague, Blasco Ibáñez wrote The four horsemen of the apocalypsePublished in 1916, which was the work that gave greater international fame, especially in the United States.
The consultation of these works is exciting for the drama and vivacity that has the text and because the vast collection of images showing documents are truly exceptional.
