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What does a new life look like from the crowded deck of an Atlantic liner?
In The Argonauts, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez brings together people crossing the Atlantic in search of money, a fresh start or a new country. Their ship becomes a floating town, gathering many lives into one voyage. Behind them lie villages with little land and little hope; ahead lies the promise of the Americas.
The title recalls Jason and the Greek heroes who sail for the Golden Fleece. Blasco Ibáñez asks what treasure draws these new travellers across the sea. Moving from crowded decks to private feelings, he explores migration through people whose hopes share an ocean, but not necessarily the same destination.
What you’ll discover
- A world on board Step into a floating town where many lives come together during a shared Atlantic crossing.
- The pull of elsewhere Explore the hopes that draw people from Spain and Europe toward the Americas.
- A new Golden Fleece Consider what money, a fresh country and a new beginning promise these travellers.
- Sea, light and weather Experience an ocean voyage through direct, sensory writing alive with colour and movement.
- Private hopes, wider forces Follow individual feelings within a broad portrait of migration and the search for opportunity.
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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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- A ship becomes a small world
- The Atlantic pulls people toward a dream
- Many lives, one crossing
- A colourful style and a wide heart
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Die Argonauten
by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez · 1914
An Atlantic liner carries emigrants toward a new life, as love, money and ambition shape their dreams of fortune.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The author
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
1867–1928 · Spanish novelist
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was a Spanish novelist born in Valencia in 1867. He wrote Blood and Sand (1908), The Argonauts (1914), The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916), and Mare Nostrum (1918). He also worked as a journalist and politician. He died in Menton, France, in 1928.
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