Word: corridas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paul Scott, a literary agent turned writer, specializes in the novel of sensibility (The Bender; The Corrida at San Felhi). This one, set in India in 1942, tells of a brash, big-boned English girl with a rage to live and a notion that flouting convention is the way to do it. Self-consciously she befriends a bright, embittered Indian boy; surreptitiously they become lovers. The relationship infuriates the English community and sets a bad example for the peasantry-at least for four Hindu hooligans who rape her one summer evening. The attackers escape, the Indian boy is vindictively jailed...
...gored, operagoers can wait in horrible human fascination for the soprano to go flat at the end of Vissi d'arte or to fall downstairs in the mad scene of Lucia. In its own way, by the nearly impossible demands it makes on singers, opera, like the corrida, pits man against nature...
...CORRIDA AT SAN FELIU by Paul Scoff. 277 pages. Morrow...
...Corrida at San Feliu, surprisingly and mercifully enough, is not another entry into the endless bullring cycle. It is a novel about a novelist writing a novel. The work opens with a preface by a fictional publisher explaining that Author Edward Thornhill has died in an auto accident in Catalonia, and that what follows is two abortive beginnings of his last novel, the novel itself, a chapter of memoirs, and a short story. The resulting collection, though inherently multi-tiered and multi-baffling, is an evocative elucidation by British Novelist Paul Scott of the incestuous interplay of experience...
...Spanish editions and 16 translations (including one in England in 1946), this novel has waited 22 years for U.S. readership, in part because it is short in length, and certainly not sweet. Deep in the classic Spanish vein, it is a tragedy of blood, relentless as a corrida, cruel as an auto...