"Les quatre cavaliers de l'apocalypse" by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez is a novel first published in 1916. An Argentinian landowner's French and German sons-in-law find themselves on opposing sides when World War I erupts. The story follows Julio Desnoyers, a spoiled young Parisian, as he transforms from an indifferent playboy into a soldier confronting the horrors of war. Meanwhile, his father watches German troops plunder their family mansion. Through the prophetic vision of the biblical Four Horsemen—Plague, War, Famine, and Death—the novel explores how blind chance and violence sweep across humanity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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