SOURCE: "The Reliable Determinants: Alcohol in Blasco Ibáñez's Valencian Works," in Ideologies and Literature, 2, 2, Fall, 1987, pp. 185-99.
In the following essay, Smith examines the means by which Blasco Ibáñez presents alcoholism as a social problem that severely afflicts the poor in his naturalistic novels Flor de Mayo, La barraca, and Cañas y borro.
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