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Blood and Sand
Sangre y arena
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Naturalism
1908
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Blood and Sand
Original title: Sangre y arena (Español)
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
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The story
Juan Gallardo rises from poverty to the glory of the bullring and finds that the crowd which raised him is the one consuming him.
About the author
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928), novelist and politician, carried Spanish naturalism to an international readership.
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