Word: ibanez
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...Author. Vicente Blasco Ibanez was extremely popular as a novelist in Spain some ten or fifteen years ago. It is said, however, that since that time, his reputation in Spain? especially in the Spanish literary world?has increased in inverse ratio to his increasing popularity abroad. (Translations...
...York Evening Post: "A characteristic dish of Blasco Ibanez's extra-special chili con carne...