What is the author's style in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibanez?

The novel is told mostly in exposition with very little dialogue. The writer often tells of things that have taken place in a past tense order or he tells them in a summary style that does not offer much in the way of actual scenes. There are long passages of dialogue at some points in which the writer is showing a character telling the other characters about the war, but again this is often told in such a way that the dialogue is in a summary type of passage that does not include the actual dialogue, word for word. Although this limits scenes, it moves the novel at a rapid pace, some chapters covering years within the stretch of just a few pages.