Juan Belmonte, Matador de Toros: Su Vida y Sus Hazanas Chaves Nogales ManuelPaperback
Juan Belmonte, Matador de Toros: Su Vida y Sus Hazanas Chaves Nogales ManuelPaperback Chaves Nogales met Juan Belmonte shortly before publishing this book, and, even though he was not a bullfighting…
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Juan Belmonte, Matador de Toros: Su Vida y Sus Hazanas Chaves Nogales ManuelPaperback
Chaves Nogales met Juan Belmonte shortly before publishing this book, and, even though he was not a bullfighting aficionado, the two men hit it off immediately. In the narration, the voices of the biographer and the subject blend together, so that it is difficult to discern when one begins to speak and the other stops, and this style makes Belmonte s memories unravel with astonishing ease: his infancy in Seville, the difficult years dedicated to learning, the picturesque aspects of the bullfighting and literary circles, fame, his rivalry with Joselito. His warmth, fighting spirit, and conciliatory mood, rare in Spanish society at the time, were some of the qualities that attracted the author and inspired him to write the famous bullfighter s biography.
This is the acute and faithful testimonial of an era, a masterpiece resulting from the encounter between two extraordinary people: Juan