There are books that open to us as the humble garden gates, inviting a leisurely stroll in the divine is not large or complicated spins smoothly, but they draw on their development path that shot, without further claim that the destination, simply hit the target. Its simple precision prevents them from aging, we offer in our first readings prospects perfectly integrated into our plans for children, and are filled magically new colors and surprising approaches as we mature. Grow with us. Books are often not what they seem, or maybe yes it may be precisely because of their lack of artifice to evade our attempts cataloging. Everyone knows by now the story: what is essential is invisible to the eye and it seems to me, so incredibly simple that slips through the fingers conceited writers who try to capture him. A hat is also known very well may be a boa constrictor that swallowed an elephant, and it is possible that that was stumbling drunk in the neighborhood of your childhood house inside an unknown map that would change your life.
The street where I grew up working as a commercial linen and bore an addiction even stronger than that linking him to vermouth: reading. It was a wise man and cultivated but in spite of living his fondness for the bottle fed in a sleek, did not enjoy good reputation in the street or friends could boast. Perhaps, as one Arab astronomer who discovered an asteroid, he failed the forms. One day, I imagine that for me always full of comics, flew into a pulse and gave me a book. I find it difficult to discern whether I am more indebted to Saint-Exupery for not giving the cone with the plane before it is written, or neighbor that does not go with cirrhosis without letting me transferred. I will not dwell on a play so well known but, yes, I will use to recommend to any parent of a child who has not yet to hand these days as likely the gift, in addition to the console, providing your child with a Prince. And by the way, if you have not read, do it.
They will find a problem is a difficult book matched on the library shelf. In mine alone in their honorary guarded corner for many years. With the entry of the new millennium, finally found a suitable mate, another book designed for children who resist with the same tenacity that prior to that strait-jacket and, like him, get pat the spell that opens the door to Basics . The narrator Juan Carlos Chandro and artist Gonzalo Izquierdo won the Second Prize for Children's Literature Illustrated Tombatossals with the album "A Redondo dream. " The dreamlike illustrations Left, with its spatial depth, its free and sinuous line, and some other amazing trick, get an animation effect us on a journey round the sun in fifteen sentences. What they hear. We have plenty of time to meet with a homeopathic and extremely lucid dissection, the problems affecting children and adults, houses and cities, stars and planets, to evaluate all pulse feeling in his right common artery that supplies and, even to intuit the solution. As all the right answers to questions will be inspired, of course, very simple. Somehow, I've always suspected that if we ask a question in good aiming, the answer we will reward our dedication will be encyclopedic, global, a kind of valid wildcard to answer every question imaginable. Question of destination.
is not a dream. But yes, round. An illuminated text, not just illustrations Izquierdo, but Chandra's prose achieves, with accuracy and ease, holding in his fingers that spark so elusive to those who try to write. An original book that displays a manojillo important details of this game of life that everybody forgets easily. It is already known: the essential, as is not, eludes us. It is a shame.
Article published by Fernando Benito in News from La Rioja.
This stage adaptation of the story "Rosa is a mess" by Juan Carlos Chandro , sisters Nura Zhinelia and Watson won the National Award Performing Arts 2006 in the national final of the competition Veo Veo Teresa Rabal Foundation. The adaptation was written by Zhinuzh Watson.
third installment of the adventures of Rosa . On this occasion, the language teacher instructs the class to make a team, make up an ad. A Rosa and his team happens to campaign against guarrocacas, that's how they call those people who do not pick up their dog poop. But the class bully (the Casiguapa) and his gang will do everything possible to annoy Rosa and his group.
The plot of this story, which typically develops two childhood fantasies: "succeed" with schoolwork and cocky partner and bully receive their just desserts, served to address issues such as consumerism, advertising, bullying and the obsession of some children by the marks.
These issues, although serious, are treated with casual and humorous tone that characterizes the series of Rosa. a cathartic end, characters and situations that are familiar to children, humor and wit, these are the main ingredients of this ration of literature.
This story has been adapted to the Colombian.
Author: Juan Carlos Chandro Illustrations: William Ferreira. Publisher: Pearson / Alhambra.
A new adventure starring Rosa. It is a year older than Rosa is a mess and still has plenty of naivety, but is gaining some malice. Rosa wants to celebrate her eighth birthday as the seventh with his best friend and cousin. But her parents want to celebrate in style for the party to talk about in the entire development. And what gives you speak, but not in the sense that his parents imagined.
children attach great importance to her birthday party, which usually is the main social event of his life. But birthdays often happens that the child and parents proposed breaking it down, transferring their own social conventions to the party of their children. The story was criticized this kind of behavior with which many parents will be identified, or what is better, identify your neighbors.
In the book " Rosa's birthday (and Victoria)" used the same resources as in the previous book Rosa: description of everyday situations recognizable by everyone, friendly critical behaviors of adults with children and a succession of gags and occurrences that make the story read to smile smile.
Author: John Carlos Chandro. Illustrations: William Ferreira. Publisher: Pearson / Alhambra.
Rosa The mess begins when her parents say they are going to visit the house of his father's boss and that should be good and polite. Given the vagueness of the instructions, Rose concludes that good behavior should be what makes her visits to go home, as stirring hair, pinch your cheeks, tell it seems larger than it is ... And decides to do much when its chief father.
Rosa is a mess technique used world upside down: in a situation in which a child becomes an adult what many adults do to children, to make it clear how ridiculous their behavior. A somewhat subversive idea that brings joy to children. A tale full of laughter, the festive illustrations contributed by William Ferreira, reflecting beautifully youthful and spontaneous tone of the story.
This story has been adapted to the Colombian.
In 2008 he was selected Rioja FAPA as one of the 20 books not to miss in a Family Library. With
a stage adaptation of this tale, the sisters Zhinelia and Nura Watson won the National Arts Award 2006 in the national final of the competition Veo Veo Teresa Rabal Foundation.
Author: Juan Carlos Chandro Illustrations: William Ferreira. Publisher: Pearson / Alhambra.
This picture book is about dreams and aspirations. Its worked structure (circular, while speculating, while China box) seems to reflect the repetitive patterns of dreams.
This book is written
"Why do you always dreamed of being what we are not? Why do we want to be older when we are children, or children when they are old? Will the search for identity never ends? All these questions are crucial, not that Juan Carlos Chandro the answer, but we made an elegant, orderly and interesting inside this ancient human desire through a chain of arguments that connects the beginning to the end, getting a successful structure circular. Personal, and honestly, I loved it. And not only text but also the illustrations, filled with shadows, patterns, tips, expressing this idea of \u200b\u200bwanting to be so complex. A good puzzle to get started in philosophy. "
Papers Children's Literature, Nuria Obiols
"True to its title, is a story round the authors propose an interesting look at one of the more prevalent concerns in the childhood: the desire to be higher. Circular structure with an effective and worked some suggestive images composition, the story goes on to show the dreams of those who wish to grow, and turns back on itself to find that jealous "great" also dream, wanting to be, paradoxically, and small. A very original book, recommended for readers aged 6-8 years and beyond. "
Babelia, El País
"prodigious talent of gold fantastic."
El Periódico, Teresa Duran / Joan Portell Rifà
"A dream round incorporates the concept of return to universal values, expressed in the precise wording of this narrative circular worked with very few illustrations, background and excellent bill, making it recommended for all sensitive readers. "
Avui, Andreu Sororra
"It's just a dream. But yes, round. An illuminated text, not just illustrations Izquierdo, but Chandra's prose achieves, with accuracy and ease, holding in his fingers that spark so elusive to those who try to write. An original book that displays a manojillo important details of this game of life that everybody forgets easily. "
News La Rioja, Fernando Benito Labarta
Shortly
remains to add, except:
"A dream round " has been translated into Catalan with the title " A somni redo.
In 2000 he won the Award for Illustrated Children's Literature Tombatossals.
In 2001 he was selected in the List of Honor of the journal Journal of Children's Literature as one of the 10 best books published that year for the age group of 8 to 10 years.
In 2006 he was chosen by the government of Mexico from the Department of Education to disseminate to schools and libraries in the country.
From tiny, Maripuzzle demonstrated that lived up to its name, as his favorite pastime was to make puzzles all objects that fell into their hands, ie , to break them. So they called the destrozona Maripuzzle. The objects of his home were terrified. In the presence of the girl, the brush is hair stood on end, the mink coat goose bumps, the clock is ticking ... had accelerated to do something and decide to organize antimaripuzzle strike. The rebellion achieves its goal: Maripuzzle understand that objects are his friends, who are there to help and make life easier. And he becomes the protector of things.
" Maripuzzle the destrozona " is, humorously, on that very special relationship children have with some things, manifested in their quest to gather the most disparate objects to which they consider as small treasures almost come to embody.
is indeed a tale of humor, but above all a love story. Objects of love, these allies, the friends who accompany us throughout our lives, these guardians of our memories.
Author: Juan Carlos Chandro Illustrations: William Ferreira. Editorial: Word. Collection: The Astor backpack.
Raúl loves books, especially adventure, but one thing I regret: he did not can be like these heroes of the books facing dragons and help people in distress. His father explains that the day to day can be an adventure.
This story highlights and encourages a sense a purpose. The idea is that in their daily lives every child must face challenges, overcome fears and make sacrifices, which, to some extent, matched by the heroes of the stories she reads. The purpose is that when a child read or read this story you feel not only comforted but also identified, which represents for him an injection of self-esteem. Special mention
illustrations Gonzalo Izquierdo, through metaphors and formal correspondences, provide a series of visual parallels between the real world of the child and the world of fantasy stories. All of a display of artistic genius.
Author: Juan Carlos Chandro. Illustrations: Gonzalo Izquierdo. Editorial: SM. Steamboat Collection (White Series).
One morning, Mrs. Barriga ant woke up, yawned and said
- What I have wanted to lay an egg!
left his nest to see if it was good day to lay eggs and saw a sign with large letters that read:
"If you visit today
Villatremenda,
can win
a fabulous gift."
and decided to leave for another day we laid an egg. She took half a grain of rice if you got hungry, half a drop of water if thirsty gave stockings if it was cold, put it all into a suitcase and left for Villatramenda in search of fortune and glory. In this story Chandro fuses humor nonsense of surrealistic formal resources of traditional tales such as jingles, linkages, and repetitions. Them capable of arousing in the reader's satisfaction sometimes motivated by a return to the known and liked, and others by surprise at the unexpected.
This story has been translated into Korean.
Author: Juan Carlos Chandro. Illustrations: William Ferreira.
Ruth has a very special nanny: a robot that can do almost everything needed to care for and entertain children. But one day the robot out of control circuits and the result is a hilarious little domestic catastrophe.
This funny story is full of surprises and intermediate gags that make kids to read with a smile. The sparkling illustrations Gonzalo Izquierdo, who here shows his humorous vein, give the comic tale of a visual that adds to the humor of the situation on which history pivots. A funny story, yes, but that invites reflection on whether priority gadgets human relations technology actually improves our quality of life.
A curious aspect of the story is that the protagonists are black. The few published stories featuring the characters of color deal with racist issues or problems of the third world. It seems a nice idea that, once children can read a story featuring black children is not a sad story but a story of laughter.
This story has been adapted to the Colombian.
Author: Juan Carlos Chandro. Illustrations: Gonzalo Izquierdo. Publisher: Pearson / Alhambra.
Juan Carlos Chandro, Engineer of Dreams, Illusions and Smiles. Paquito
When my friends would say, proudly, that I have a writer friend, sometimes you do not have the effect of wonder I hope. When I say that is a writer of children's stories that things change and I think because there are writers. There is nothing else to compare with journalists, a profession that with the same name brings together journalists from newspapers, research, presenters, press, pink, reality shows, etc, and also many writers that in the absence of ideas to write a play , take advantage of income spent selling books, to fill columns and columns that are forgotten by the readers as soon as you turn the page. Then, thinking about how to qualify the work of Juan Carlos, I plunged into the dictionary and saw very nice words, and forgotten but not served because they were the opposite of what they do, words like clerk , type , scribe even clerk, that computers have almost disappeared and almost no one enjoys the smell of ink off the paper, where ideas flow and the paper is filled with letters as if spring had arrived inspiring imagination. And at that moment my mind flew several years ago, and saw a small child in her village, fortunately without television that his father told him the story of Tom Thumb teaching the thumb and repeating that if that was true of tiny, and he saw the little arms and little teeth of Tom Thumb, and saw glass slippers, and dreamed of countries in which pigs that he saw on the street every day, were called pigs, were houses and talked, and even had other countries that are called piglets and were flying, and he looked to heaven if I saw any. And that kid when he went to sleep demanded more and more stories and dreams were dreams of castles and princesses, and when I woke up I just wanted to get to school with the hope of returning to see these stories read and reread by him and many others before, and when I came home I knew that if she behaved well, back to listen again to those great adventures always ended well, and her face always looked a smile.
And then I remembered a book I read over bridges where there was talk of possibly the most beautiful bridge in the world, the Salgina-Tobel of Robert Maillart, a bridge too TIGHT, amid the mountains of Switzerland, which was built for some children of a town, shorter could go to school, and I thought in the work of these great engineers, trying to get people could travel, drinking water, transporting the fruit of their labor, in short, to improve their lives, often doing work that they know they will help only a few, and not give them fame, but who will use them happier and probably better people.
and compare this work with the work that makes Juan Carlos with his imagination and love and saw that the result was the same, so I decided to invent a new profession, which is very difficult to belong and from which a of its great exponents is Juan Carlos, Engineer of Dreams, Illusions and smiles and then I dreamed like as a kid, and dreamed that I would like him more.
Paquito The day celebrates its first year received a special gift: a puppy named package. They soon became close friends. One afternoon, Paquito decided to try what it feels like being a dog, and give the opportunity to test package does it feel to be a child ... and the mess is served.
When children start reading, reading them takes great effort. Aware of this, Chandra, on the one hand, wrote a story fun for that work be rewarded and, secondly, has used various resources to make your effort is less, simple vocabulary, simple sentences ... The result is this hilarious story, where each page is a smile. The reasons for this undoubtedly hilarious illustrations Guillermo Ferreira, some of which are real cartoons.
Author: Juan Carlos Chandro. Illustrations: William Ferreira. Editorial: Everest.
In one place above the clouds, live the Lord of the noise and the Lady of the Sounds. They are responsible for inventing sounds and put them to things, animals and people. Your child lives with them, the mischievous Cataplum buzz. When he gets older, he will also be Lord of the noise and sounds, but is so eager to fill the world of sounds that one day not take it anymore and leaves the desire to travel the world ... and by simply changing sounds, and the humor as a tool, manage to solve a lot of conflicts.
One type of stories that young children especially like: those in which the protagonist is a young child that gets better the world or solve conflicts adults. Cataplum rumor is the story of a boy who travels the world making disputes in laughter.
At that age when children begin to master language, they like playing with words and, therefore, the stories in which they appear onomatopoeia, soniquetes, refrains ... of all this is in buzz Cataplum already from the title, but brought no charge, but his appearance in the story is, as required by the very nature of history. Cataplum buzz In all these resources are put the service of an idea that is intended to illustrate the story: the humor is a good way to resolve conflicts, it is better to laugh than fight.
Author: Juan Carlos Chandro. Illustrations: Roser Rius. Editorial: SM. Collection: Tales from now.
Protagonists of this story are again Rita and Tito, children wizards' magic kisses. " On this occasion, they find a magic formula which means that, when singing a song, displayed what it is named. This is fine when the song is about oranges and lemons, but when what is being sung is "An elephant was rocking ..." and the place where the singer is inside a house, the results can be hilarious.
If "The magic kiss" invited to an active reading by parents (kiss their children as they read the story), "The magical songs" invites active reading otherwise. By including it fragments of immensely popular children's songs, adults and children can not help but read and listen to these fragments singing them, so that reading becomes a little Comedieta musical in which actors are the reader and listener. This story makes it particularly suitable to be read or told by teachers, animators and storytellers.
As in "The magic kisses, the underlying theme of" magic Songs "is the love between parents and children, but here is expressed with a new wrinkle: in the end the mother, instead of scolding their children for their mistakes, teaches correct. A final result cathartic and reassuring for young readers.
Author: Juan Carlos Chandro. Illustrated by Mikel Valverde. Editorial: Alfaguara.
Before going to sleep, Rita and Tito playing with his mother to the magic kisses, his favorite game. But this family is a bit special: all are wizards. So when their mother kisses a frog, Rita and Tito become frogs, when they get a kiss trumpet their noses become trumpets ... a spell follows another spell until it's time to kiss goodnight.
"magic Kisses" is a story for pre-readers, and at this age three things that they like to children are their parents to read a story, play with them and show them you care. This story gives parents the chance to show their love children playing, reading truffle dressing and peppered with laughter kisses.
"Magical Kisses" has been included in the language textbook 1. Number of Primary (Ediciones Santillana-Bolivia).
Author: Juan Carlos Chandro. Illustrated by Mikel Valverde. Editorial: Alfaguara.
"I love a lot" is a book caressing words, a book tender as a teddy bear. is a story for pre-readers, for children who can not read. It is written that parents who are going to read to their children and encourages active reading. The father or mother, to read, have to gesture, imitate voices, embracing his son ... and say "I love you" from eleven different ways.
some parents say that this story true cause addiction to their children and ask them to read it again and again. And no wonder. At this age, 90% of the universe of children are their parents. If 90% of the universe to tell a child you love him and I said a lot of different ways, the feeling experienced by the child when just read the story is that the universe wants. Can you imagine we had a book for adults can cause this effect?
Moreover, the book's message is contained in a sentence: "I know you love me, but I like to tell me." All parents, children, friends, boyfriends, husbands should say more often than we want, although I know.
"I love you a lot " was selected by the Government of La Rioja to give away to all children born in La Rioja, 2005.
Author: Juan Carlos Chandro. Illustrations: M. ª Luisa Torcida. Editorial: Bruno. Collection: Chiquicuentos.
In the garden of Juan Carlos Ramirez Chandro ( Ausejo , La Rioja , 1963) grow books, sometimes tender, sometimes funny. Chandro paid this garden with the nostalgia of his childhood, a few drops of water with imagination and a dash observation, and cultivated with great respect towards children. Believes that children are sensitive people in size, but also people with capital letters in its own right, they feel joy, sadness, fear ... for different reasons than adults, but with equal or greater intensity.
why in his stories about the problems and issues that kids care about is not from a position of superiority, but of respect.
And so his books are inhabited by real children as they are, not how they should be models.
WHY WANT JOSE THOMAS smear? The controversy over the award of the Gold Medal of Fine Arts, the bullfighter Francisco Rivera by the Ministry of Culture not only has not subsided, but promises to burn the bullfighting season in the night which Fallas de San José. The bulls face of the heart. It's funny that this happens just a murderer who once asked courts to limit the media talking about him only by his role as a bullfighter. But now it turns out that the much hated magazines and talk shows are pink thing to defend him tooth and nail (well, only some and those who have friends and interests), while bullfighting critics and fans questioned the Minister Cesar Antonio Molina (as discussed in their circle the minister does not think any explanation is that prefer not to add fuel to the fire) for this concession so out of place and that Rivera and is known as the "medals." Best of all is to see how far the 'river' want to attack the 'Tomas' and all that happens is to question the greatness of the Galapagos bullfighter in his first appointment at the failures came through the front door, cut two ears and shut down their throats with his temper and his art which were carried The Hello! to the ring. José Tomás, the god of stone, threw his veranda to Paco Camino, who attended the fight and showed that in the square there is controversy worth. And all this still expected to Cayetano Rivera, Curro Vázquez and his uncle, Thomas and deciding on road after recommending a Morante de la Puebla better not fall on the streets. to see how the leg out after that blunder and to see if the end will be right who say that the big loser of this debate (with Francisco has relaunched to pose as the victim) is just Cayetano, who going to have to fight at his brother duo Fran and leave the name of Cayetano to dry for a couple's Rivera. At least that's the rumor circulating through the alleys.
RUNNING A Picassian .- (End. Two videos). I have to admit that I have no idea of \u200b\u200bwhat is such a thing and I think the organizers, either. Have organized "something" and have very little care, to the point that does not appear in the lineup the Bulls will fight and ... that the show is called, Corrida de Toros. course who, seeing the lineup of fighters, fighting, fighting what they say, impossible. THE CONFERENCE. "PICASSO AND LUIS MIGUEL Dominguin." was convened at the Plaza de la Merced, where Pablo Picasso was born and lived and was scheduled and announced - that the limit of assistance was related to the capacity of the venue. course if the City is interested in the commemoration Picasso museum - tourism crisis - conceals it. to eight in the evening, we had to wait standing in a hall very dull. The "room" was a hallway wide, with wall on both sides and chairs, very similar to those used in the old Instituto Cervantes of Madrid - Fortuny street - during sixth grade and high school. Luckily who talked and talked, we forgot everything. "City officials? None. And, as everyone knows, Picasso was born here. I'm nothing Seville, I have to recognize the excellence with which the town of Betis, watch your stuff. Malaga is a disaster. I have the luck of the teacher, is an amateur, my twin brother. He defined the bullfighter almost like I had done it with a "but." The dominant word - was so much - I fall short, I prefer "matador", which seems to me more broadly. Miguel was struggling from the start of the bull with his cape - before biting the bull - is difficult to master, but it can handle the bull to do what needs to be done and to do so, we must understand bulls must think very quickly in the face of the bull and you must know it. I return to the Bulls for you,
me, Rafael.
For you, the ring
Ay! more years that fear!
Luis Miguel.
Oh, great bullfighter in Spain!,
That poster!
impossible and a great run
- the biggest of your life -
I propose,
Luis Miguel.
You, the only matador,
Picasso's pink and gold
Pablo Ruiz Picasso, the bull,
and I, the chopper ... We had the friendship of the two, based on the fact that torero never approached the artist trying to "get" something and Picasso, smarter than hunger, it was realized from the beginning. He declined, however, clarify the reasons for the breakdown of both. I know first hand who is connected with the felicitous phrase of Salvador Dalí "Picasso is a Communist, me neither." The painter was very conservative - to the behavior of others - And also friend of the very "progressive" Lucía Bosé, Miguel and was angry when she was separated because of him. Don Paul, I was a Bluebeard. Throughout the conference showed that Bose was not a saint of the devotion of the speaker, in my opinion the best of all women of the bullfighter, was the last, Rosario Primo de Rivera. Too bad I did not get married before - are aware of young people, could have happened - because with that mixture of blood, only God knows what could have "come out" of such a union. A Dictator, a pirate, a Nobel prize?
in the ink is left the day that Picasso did not come to Malaga by a hair. The aircraft taxi - and then called - was waiting for Don Camilo Alonso Vega Franco had orders to cross the border any person to accompany Michael, although Doing so lacking proper documentation. The shift of the painter's wife - redder than the blood and anti-English for construction - slowed the wishes of Malaga, realizing that if the painter came to tread Spain, and would not return. Was intended "one of whitebait, but it was not possible. It is probably politically incorrect to tell.
Festival held to commemorate the eightieth birthday of Picasso, took place in an area South of France - Vallauris - where the party was not authorized. Had to undertake it, not to kill the bulls, but eventually, they went to the painter so that if it were a Roman emperor and he, with the thumbs down, caused the death of Burel. Exceptional boy swords.
dinner. Then Mary Louise and I, we went to The Beehive and the owner, Antonio, said "the conference as José Ignacio he could have uttered. " Not so, Mary, not so much. And thanks ...
AMOROS INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR. BULLS AND LITERATURE.
not easy to tell in a few paragraphs of an intellectual activity as Andrés Amorós. If we stay in the first impression, a teacher could be described as accessible and courteous, owner of a copious library, theater and expert on bullfighting. Always will find the list of the most knowledgeable of Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Clarín and Manuel Machado. However, the interview that I submitted is somewhat unorthodox approach. The truth is that I have not even set a questionnaire. The reason is clear: to speak with a love of literature bulls and just always lead one to thoughts I had not anticipated. Andrés Amorós was cultural director of the Fundación Juan March, director of the National Classical Theatre Company and director of the Institute of Performing Arts and Music. His work includes over a hundred titles, and their quality has earned him the National Essay Award, National Review Literary Fastenrath of the Royal English Academy, Jose Maria de Cossio and Arts Valencia. There are therefore few reasons to admire this thinker, whose modesty should not forget that is, besides other things, Professor of English Literature at the Faculty of Philology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Academic Honor Real Academia de Cultura Valenciana. Amorós seems to have lost the taste for reading and go to the bulls with the daily friction of life. His new book, Luis Miguel Dominguin, the number one (The Sphere Books) shows that also has an extremely evocative emotional geography. ANDREW , WHAT AGE BEGINS TO BE CONSIDERED YOU A FAN TO THE BULLS? was barely five years old when my father, a great enthusiast, took me to see a bullfight. Of course, that precocity is due to my family tradition without which the bulls were discovered later, perhaps during adolescence. was predestined. guess, anyway I wanted. The reality is that often when I talk to people the world of bullfighting, are astonished that have memories so old, but I insist: it is not my doing, for he who took me to the place was my father, a man very familiar world of bullfighting, bullfighters and taurófilo friend like my grandfather, who was a veterinarian Plaza de Toros de Alicante. IMAGINE THAT YOUR MEMORIES so distant from those early experiences as a spectator ... cherish memories of the bullfighting world since 1947, shortly before his death "Manolete." Now there are many intellectuals who are going to the arenas, but come with the preconceived idea of \u200b\u200bwriting or because they have read to Federico García Lorca. What IF THAT WAS NOT LOAD LITERARY? I'm a fan walk that I went to the bulls for many years without having read Lorca and non-write anything. Then it turns out, years later, I have finished writing, but not with the preconceived idea culturalist. You see, I I consider myself an ordinary fan. In any case, a good amateur, because it took many years. SI TALK BULL AND LITERATURE, ALMOST SEEMS FORCED TO START FOR THE SUMMER OF 1959, WHEN AND ANTONIO LUIS MIGUEL Dominguin ORDÓÑEZ SHOWED THEIR RIVALRY THE WAY THAT WE DESCRIBE THE HEMINGWAY IN "THE BLOODY SUMMER." I lived near that "bloody summer", immortalized by Hemingway in the series of articles he wrote for Life magazine. And I went through a very simple reason is that my father was a close friend of Luis Miguel, whom I have known since childhood home. Were you with him during the season? Yes, that year 1959 Dominguín accompany all summer, from July to August. During that season, he stayed at home sometimes. The truth is that it was very interesting in two ways, taurine and cultural, because I was a young person under twenty years, but was deeply rooted love for literature. SHOULD BE A PRIVILEGE TO KNOW HOW PEOPLE Dominguin and Ordonez. Thanks to the bull, I got to meet very special people. For example, Ernest Hemingway, who was traveling with Ordonez, while I went with my father and Luis Miguel. It was then that I met Orson Welles, who impressed me because it was an extraordinary genius, and the actress Lauren Bacall. What EXPERIENCED HOW DOES A YOUNG AGE AS YOU, THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THESE CELEBRITIES? Well, I usually have one of the days during which Luis Miguel was living in our house in Hondarribia, a knock at the door. Prompted by my mother, went to open and to my surprise, I found that it was Deborah Kerr, who came to see Dominguín ... I also remember another occasion, before starting the run, when I was playing table Paco Camino pong with ... well, it is clear what is special about that world that I was lucky enough to enjoy. DID FORMED AND AN IDEA OF WHAT IT MEANS TO INTELLECTUAL LIDIA? I think my concept of bullfighting And not want to seem pedantic - it is then curdled, next to my father watching bullfights, and seeing in particular two extraordinary teachers, Luis Miguel and Ordonez. Unfortunately, I think his was the last major competition taurine. TRUE. fans miss big killers there are two distinct but first class, with a very strong rivalry like that. Corrochano says there was a sort of agreement, because, in his deathbed, the father of the Dominguín asked to do so. But I do not recall, that summer, each suffered three serious horns, which means there was a very obvious pique, because they were also totally bullfighters and as different as people. Undoubtedly, such competition existed. WHAT WAS YOUR TREATMENT WELCOME TO THE FAMILY? I'm very fond of Welcome, which have been all good fighters. It is clear that responding to a school and outside the art of each, must know how to dress, how you have to walk on the square, how to behave, where to be placed and how to get to remove. Among other things, all that has been largely lost. "SO YOU THINK? do not mean to offend, but many of the current agents are businesses, just worried about issues like money and contracts. A Martial Lalanda liked to say he had been for no longer representative, but an artistic adviser. If Jesulín Ubrique, matador Enrique Ponce and today all had been accompanied by a great veteran who will explain these things in the profession, had come much further. I have just quoted MARTIAL LALANDE, ANOTHER CHARACTER ON MUCH YOU KNOW ... Marcial Lalande is one of the smartest men I've met in my life. Several journalists had set out to do a book but he, who knew a little about my background, came to me and said he wanted to do this book with me, it meant a serious text and not a hagiography. I was delighted to collaborate with him in that work was called Martial bullfighting Lalande. How would you describe Luis Miguel Dominguin? The readiness of Dominguín was extraordinary. His was an overwhelming personality, and he liked to do a thousand things to shock people and be friends with people like Picasso, but of course, aware of his talent taurine, returning to the ring. WHAT IS YOUR CONCEPT OF TAUROMAQUIA? is that I learned with my father and people like Lalanda or Luis Miguel. Everything is based on the fight, that is, to do a task in accordance with the terms of the response. Years ago, the bull was a fierce animal, difficult and transmitting emotion, and the matador first thing I had to do was master the difficulties of the bull and, from there, create a task aesthetics. But we have sought a new kind of animal that allows a new kind of slaughter and that appeals to new audiences. THINGS HAVE CHANGED, IS NOT IT TRUE? When we say that now he fights better than ever - famously - it makes me smile ... no doubt there will ever fought not more beautiful than ever now, because art is refined and as this is possible with a much softer bull that is left to do. And that, what are the consequences? There are many that are well run, where they cut ears and people leave happy, but do not convey that emotion to me is a fundamental element the party. I do not want either the Roman circus or be a wild barbarian, but bullfighting is not a ballet. Is to create beauty but on the basis of a fierce bull, complicated, difficult, powerful ... When a viewer of today judged that a bull can torearlo even he, here we see the end of the party. NOSTALGIA DO YOU PRODUCE? There is a growing aestheticism, a mannerism that Ortega y Gasset observed and for many years. I miss that sense of fighting before, where everything was responding to a sense, to one unit at a bullfighting ... For example, before it was common for the three take off, take away competition, rivalry ... I am now a run magnificent and there has not been a parry. Well, this does not correspond with my idea of \u200b\u200bthe fight. As bullfighting has become a mass spectacle, the effect is greater many times. AND ... not want to sound like an old nostalgic. I'm glad that young people go to the square and the party is a show with a huge social base, but I miss the deals seen as a more complete set. If the bullfighters are any easy sensationalism is more successful than the purity and classicism, it will point to that. Changing the subject: YOU HAVE REVIEWED WITH DEEP CONNECTION BETWEEN BULLS AND CRITICAL STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE AS BULLS, WRITERS AT THE FESTIVAL (DE ANTONIO MACHADO A ANTONIO GALA) AND THE BULLS IN THE LITERATURE, INCLUDING THIS LAST IN THE SPLENDID VOLUME VII THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BULLS OF COSSÍO. One thing is certain: the writer must know that world and live naturally, because if not stay on the outside. The trouble is that so impressed the outside that can fall very easily into the topics ... There is another complication, namely that long bullfighting has been identified with traditionalism, anti-Europeanism and reactionary, due to which many intellectuals turned their backs on the party and did not know. was something of a taboo, RIGHT? I do not intend any apologetic, but the fighting has always been a show English popular, it was useful to some people and not others. Often mentioned among taurófilos to Ortega, Pérez de Ayala, Américo Castro, Bergamin ... they represent a wild right, pure and anti-European? Quite the contrary. way I see it TOO. But these are errors that occur as a long dictatorship of Franco. Belittle many things we do not make sense and bullfighting can not be identified with reactionary political tendency in any way. MANY POETS HAVE IDENTIFIED WITH THE BULLS. For poetry is adecuadísimo bullfighting theme. Any person with a poetic sensibility that go to a place, find the deals now magical. There are many and varied poetic features in bullfighting. Rafael Alberti sees it as something joyful, Lorca as tragic. Emphasis on different shades, there are many poets who have expressed in his work the theme of the party. TELL ME WHAT TEST? Well, the essayists have warned the interest of the art of fighting from different perspectives. Rites and games of bull, Angel Alvarez de Miranda, is a crucial test to understand the ancient roots of this show. Adrados Professor Rodriguez has also written some amazing articles about bullfighting in relation to Greek ritual slaughter ... By the way, regarding this prehistory of the party, I am opposed to something that holds my dear friend Fernando Sanchez Drago , who often associated with Spain bulls magic. DO NOT BELIEVE IN THAT LINK Esoteric? As we know, bullfighting is quite the opposite. Is a product of the Enlightenment and Reason. Emerges in the eighteenth century to encode a popular show and creates, therefore, the functional architecture by which a party regular explosive. We are attracted to this element of magic and irrational, but the fighting is not a pure chaos. Rather, it is a cosmos governed by laws very specific and very wise. WHAT IS MODERN WRITERS TAURINO HAVE SO INTERESTED? Another good knowledge of the bulls is my friend Antonio Gala, whose understanding of bullfighting is not inconsistent with his love of animals, their sensitivity, exquisite and refined image. With him I went to the place and once we have participated together in discussions bullfighting. Gala makes a statement which is to me a fact and is above political differences, ideological and economic, both attached to the Hispanic peoples, on one side of the Atlantic: the English language and culture of the bull. is something that is an archetype. In France, where bullfighting live an extraordinary development, bullfighting is identified with the Hispano. In France there is a fair flags English and try to imitate the atmosphere of a fair Andalusian. The same applies to French writers enticed by the art of bullfighting. Jean Cocteau was drawn to flamenco and bullfighting. In 1926 he published Montherlant Bestiaries. And Jean Cau was traveling with Jaime Ostos during the 1960 season, wrote "The ears and tail" and another book, I think still to be translated into English, where he talks about Dominguín, Ordonez and Hemingway, who harshly criticizes. DO YOU THINK THIS INTEREST OF FRENCH WRITERS HAVE A SOLID FOUNDATION Or is it circumstantial, and EPIDERMAL SOMETHING? The interest from artists such as Cocteau, and Cau Montherlant be to bullfighting and flamenco are very serious matters, and we should not be ashamed or question over the topic, because they represent a typical English art. WHAT YOU THINK THAT BEST-SELLER by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins, O mourning for ME? is a novel inspired by the life of Manuel Benitez "the Cordoba." It is a book I have read carefully and I enjoy a lot, but as a fan bother me quite a number of inaccuracies grotesque, as would occur if I write about a typical French sport without it completely. "The Cordoba is a very interesting case, though, despite its merits, I do not like the guy practicing bullfighting, it does not respond to a classic line and falls into the stark reality. It is also true that all professionals respect him a lot. IS A BRAVE MAN AND ORIGINAL. NO DOUBT OF THAT. There is a striking book about his record, "That's ... El Pipo, Manolete, El Cordoba ", written by the manager that launched him to success, Rafael Sánchez" the Pipo. " As a book published by the author, has just circulated and few people have read. In its pages account "Pipo" how could assemble a number publicity around the bullfighter, using propaganda techniques peculiar, close to the picaresque. ANYWAY IT SEEMS HARD TO BRING THE ISSUE TAURINO NOVEL AND THE DRAMA WITH LITERARY CATEGORY. 's narrative is derived from the great danger to the serial or melodrama, as in "El Niño de las Monjas" by Juan López Núñez. It is logical that the recent novel react against it. For example, Fernando Quiñones bulls a few stories that are nothing customs. The fighting serves as a metaphor for life, reflecting a human conflict where the hero is faced with tragedy, death and failure. In fact, the tales of Borges liked Quiñones, it was nothing castizo or customs. indeed. Modestly I've done some stories bull on that line. People taurine is a little amazed by them because they are like a Greek tragedy. Regardless of the bullfighters wear costume, his is a tragic situation quite fruitful for literature. What theater? I ask because OTHER SPECIALTY THAT IS YOURS. The difficulty of the subject theatrical taurine is that it is very difficult to represent bullfighting with the limitations of a small stage. However, dramatic literature of our century there are works that address the theme of the party, as the demigods, Frederick Oliver, The case of the man dressed in violet, Miguel Mihura, the gore, Alfonso Sastre, Bullfighting, of Juan Antonio Castro, And bull crowned by Francisco Nieva, and Ramirez, Jose Luis Miranda. THERE IS ALSO ANOTHER EXCEPTIONAL CHARACTER OF PLAYWRIGHT WAS A LEGENDARY TORERO. I refer of course, A Ignacio Sanchez Mejias. Note that he is a figure that beautifully embodies the union of bullfighting and culture discussed here. I had the opportunity to meet her daughter in Seville. I do not like to disturb the family, so I had finished the biography of Sánchez Mejías without resorting to their relatives. However, the image of the matador who gave me his daughter did not change anything that I had provided Alfredo Marcial Corrochano and Lalande, who torearon with him. His tragic death in the ring gave rise to a myth, but it was mostly a person of enormous cultural and vital concern. was undoubtedly an intelligent MAN. appears in family photos riding, swimming, with the football team "Betis", stepping on a plane ... It was that kind of character without having studied had an extraordinary intellectual alertness, and this is confirmed by Jorge Guillen and Rafael Alberti . It is curious that he told his father he studied medicine, when in fact it was over and the school. And it's true in life ... being smart is good for everything, but what is even bullfighting. To a tragic situation, grazing at the site the possibility death, the smart get ahead. Sánchez Mejías was intelligent and understood very well what it was that group of 27, the new Spain and modernity. WAS GOOD FRIEND OF THOSE YOUNG WRITERS 27. He liked being with the poets, but not be pedantic or propaganda. Simply, they were friends and had fun with them. With that concern, at one point that bullfighting was short and he felt the need to do new things in life. So wrote plays and even a novel which, incidentally, I am still looking to read. ALMOST SEEMS OBVIOUS QUESTIONS him to write about this character. I teach literature and I like the bulls, so it was logical he had finished preparing a book on Sánchez Mejías and an essay on the "Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías", Lorca. In 1998 I went to actor Peter Martin at several places where I commented on "Cry" and then recited the actor, is something that comes very much to people. However, this is a very difficult poem to understand and there are many things to unravel it. GUZMÁN Urrere April 15, 2008. AMOROS, biographical data.
Professor of Literature English. Author of more than 150 books. National Essay Prize and National Literary Criticism. Considered the best specialist in the cultural aspects of love became professor tauromaquia.El amateur with her father, the notary of Madrid known, as a supporter of the bullfighter, like me and a close friend of his, to the point that led to Yugoslavia Tito, when he fought a couple of runs, for the chair.
Professor Amorós worked several years in the bullfighting broadcast live by TVE - when he really was, "English" - and I have to say I do not know anyone whose views on the passage of fight, are so similar to mine.
I have the luck of the teacher, is an amateur, 
