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Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish novelist, describes Kerensky thus: Slender, exotic, interesting, and of an original ugliness-"ugly as only Russians are ugly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Invaluable | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish author: "It was reported that I, ' seriously ill from an undetermined ailment,' was taken from the S.S. Franconia at Colon, C. Z., and removed to a hospital there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Dec. 10, 1923 | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Felix-- | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Felix-- | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

...liked Ibanez. I wonder if it would be possible for anyone to know him well. Like most men of exaggeratedly fertile brains, his real self lies somewhere very deep within. He tends to speak in periods. His words, too, are gestures; this, however, is the world of make-believe and of romance. It is his world. He moves in it serenely and triumphantly. He is a giant of a novelist, a swift spinner of glowing tales, a man with a passion for accomplishment who has been endowed with sufficient vitality to pursue his images to their creation. Long life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Young Felix-- | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

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