Ritual and Sacrifice in the Corrida
«Brilliant, flowing prose makes the often unknown and misunderstood spectacle of bullfighting comprehensible, vibrant and even impassioned to a general readership.... With this tremendous and impressive investigative work, Josephs' contribution to the true cause of bullfighting will be far greater than even Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon. - Muriel Feiner, author of La Mujer en El Mundo del Toro ""A beautifully written book, dripping with the beauty of the Spanish earth, and its action paragraphs vibrate with the details of Spain's ancient, mysterious pageant of nobility and passion. In this adventure, we the reader come to know the heroism and courage of both bull and torero, and we experience the tragic catharsis of the doomed and dying toro. This book will instantly join the limited list of modern classics of the Spanish corrida."" - Donald Junkins, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, author of Journey to the Corrida (1999)»
Allen Josephs paints a portrait of life in and around the world's most prestigious bullrings, demonstrating how and why the ""corrida"" (or bullfight) remains a sacred and integral part of Hispanic culture. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University Press of Florida
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780813024622
- Utgivelsesår
- 2002
- Format
- 25 x 16 cm
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«Brilliant, flowing prose makes the often unknown and misunderstood spectacle of bullfighting comprehensible, vibrant and even impassioned to a general readership.... With this tremendous and impressive investigative work, Josephs' contribution to the true cause of bullfighting will be far greater than even Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon. - Muriel Feiner, author of La Mujer en El Mundo del Toro ""A beautifully written book, dripping with the beauty of the Spanish earth, and its action paragraphs vibrate with the details of Spain's ancient, mysterious pageant of nobility and passion. In this adventure, we the reader come to know the heroism and courage of both bull and torero, and we experience the tragic catharsis of the doomed and dying toro. This book will instantly join the limited list of modern classics of the Spanish corrida."" - Donald Junkins, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, author of Journey to the Corrida (1999)»