The Uninvited Guest

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez is a Spanish writer, journalist and politician, whose work combines naturalistic and realistic tendencies, the author of short stories, novels, novels, due to political persecution he had to emigrate to France.

The novel "The Uninvited Guest" (1904) belongs to the socio-psychological novels created in the early 1900s. The main motives of the prose are the hero's awareness of the right to freedom and a dignified life, socio-economic and political issues dominate. The author describes the everyday life and hard life of workers in a colorful, detailed and naturalistic way. His best works, such as "Toledo Cathedral", "The Invasion", "Blood and Sand", are marked by psychologism as a defining technique of the narrative. After 1910, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez moved away from depicting social issues. In 1924, he published a pamphlet against the dictator and king of Spain, "Alfonso XIII Unmasked," after which he left France. The author's works have been translated into many languages, now including Ukrainian.