Word: ibanez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blasco Ibanez...
...Most Dynamic of Novelists Dr. Smythe, of the International Book Review, came out of the elevator. "Well," said he, "that human dynamo is upstairs waiting for you!" Human dynamo, Blasco Ibanez certainly proved to be. Dark, white-skinned, brisk, almost jerky in his movements, with hands which noticeably wear several jeweled rings and gesticulate in square, but expressive fashion, the great Spanish spinner of yarns is a perfect echo of the life he has led. He does not speak in English. I speak no Spanish, little French. He spoke in French and I understood. A friend put my questions...
...Ibanez is a man of tremendous, incalculable dramatic imagination. This is curious because he does not like the theatre. He has never written a play. I think that I know why he does not like the stage. It is confining to the imagination. It sets mechanical rules within which the fancy may not indulge itself by great leaps of time and place...
...youth Ibanez was a political orator. He waged battle for causes. He fought duels. Now he is publisher, journalist, novelist. His publishing firm has published in the form of cheap little paper books practically all of the world's masterpieces for the benefit of the Spanish people. Publishing on a grand scale-yes!-for Ibanez is just that -grandiose. Life for him, I fancy, is a brilliant gesture...
...Kennaday of the Foreign Press Service, tells me that he has spent evenings with Ibanez when the fiery gentleman has outlined story after story after story-all of them good. It is a pity that there are not 48 hours in a day, and that the fertile-minded Spaniard cannot write with both hands at once...