Vicente Blasco Ibanez

The Mayflower Vicente Blasco Ibanez

In 1895, "Flor de Mayo" was published, the second novel by the Valencian writer Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, originally written as a leaflet for the republican newspaper El Pueblo, founded by Blasco himself. Considered as one of the best novels written on men of the sea, is part of the cycle of Valencian costumbristas novels made by Blasco between 1894 and 1902, along with "Arroz y tartana", "Cañas y barro" and "La barraca". In "Flor de Mayo", Blasco takes us to his hometown, El Cabanyal, a small fisherman's neighborhood that supplies fish to the whole city of Valencia, at many times the life of some fishermen; A life he knew personally, as he recognized in the prologue he wrote for his reissue in 1923.