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El viejo del Paseo de los Ingleses by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
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El viejo del Paseo de los Ingleses

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Narrator Rafael Baena Zapatero

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Length 1 hour 29 minutes
Language Spanish
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Summary

"El viejo del paseo de los ingleses" es una emotiva novela breve de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez que cuenta, a su vez, muchas historias. Con la capacidad del autor para describir ambientes y caracteres, asistimos a una historia de amor, a la vida de la alta sociedad europea de principios del siglo XX, a la desaparición de la Rusia zarista con todos sus excesos e injusticias, a los primeros años de la revolución bolchevique, y a los ecos que todo ello tiene en las orillas del Mediterráneo, en la Costa Azul. A través de Fedor Ipatief, un personaje frívolo y tierno al que la historia ha dejado varado como un verdadero fósil de épocas pasadas, la narración nos deja melancólico testimonio, con una cierta ironía, de un mundo que quizá no nos resulte tan extraño, y de las vidas de muchas personas tan anónimas como reales, que encuentran su eco en la ficción de Blasco Ibáñez.

Diseño de portada: David Rubiales Suárez.

"El viejo del paseo de los ingleses" is an emotional short novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez with many stories inside. With the author's ability to describe environments and characters, we witness a love story, the life of European high society in the early twentieth century, the demise of Tsarist Russia with all its excesses and injustices, the early years of the Bolshevik revolution, and the echoes that all this has on the shores of the Mediterranean, on the Côte d'Azur. Through Fedor Ipatief, a frivolous and tender character whom history has left stranded as a true fossil of past times, the narration leaves us a melancholic testimony, with a certain irony, of a world that perhaps is not so alien to us, and of the lives of many people as anonymous as they are real, who find their echo in Blasco Ibáñez's fiction. 

Cover art design: David Rubiales Suárez.

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