Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Die Argonauten
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For readers who love sea voyages, social panoramas and stories of migration between Spain and South America, with love, ambition and the search for a new life.
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The Argonauts is a novel by the Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, first published in Spanish in 1914 as Los argonautas. It belongs to the years when he turned his eyes from Valencia to the Americas. Its subject is the crossing of the Atlantic and the people who make it, in search of money, a new start or a fresh country.
The title points back to the Greek heroes who sailed with Jason to win the Golden Fleece. Blasco Ibáñez asks what the modern fleece is, and who the modern sailors are. In this summary you will hear about the setting, the kind of people the book gathers, the ideas that run under the action, and the way the author tells it. First, the ocean itself.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A ship becomes a small worldFree
- 2The Atlantic pulls people toward a dream
- 3Many lives, one crossing
- 4A colourful style and a wide heart
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A ship becomes a small world
Blasco Ibáñez wrote in a time when great ocean liners carried hundreds of thousands of Europeans across the Atlantic. A ship of this kind was a floating town. It held rich passengers in comfort and poor ones in crowded lower decks, all moving toward the same distant shore.
The novel uses that setting as its frame. A voyage gives a writer a natural stage, because strangers are thrown together for weeks and cannot easily leave. Habits of class, nation and money show themselves quickly in such a place.
The title helps here. The Argonauts of old sailed together toward a prize that mattered more to some than to others. The modern ship carries its own crew of dreamers, and the author watches how a shared voyage joins them and also divides them.
That’s 1 of 4 key points.
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Questions about Die Argonauten
What is The Argonauts by Blasco Ibáñez about?
It is a novel about people crossing the Atlantic, set on a ocean voyage between Europe and the Americas. It looks at ambition, love, money and the emigrant dream, using the ship as a small model of society.
Why is the novel called The Argonauts?
The title recalls the Greek heroes who sailed with Jason to win the Golden Fleece. Blasco Ibáñez applies the idea to modern travellers and emigrants who cross the sea in search of fortune or a new life.
When was The Argonauts written and by whom?
It was written by the Spanish novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez and published in 1914 as Los argonautas. It is a work of fiction, though it draws on the real tide of emigration to South America.
Is The Argonauts hard to read?
No. Blasco Ibáñez writes in a clear, colourful and direct style meant for a wide public.
What else did Blasco Ibáñez write?
He is best known for The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Blood and Sand. He also wrote Valencian novels such as Reeds and Mud, and many works of travel and journalism.