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,
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?
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. 
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.
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