Word: corridas
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...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...
...inspire children with more respect for and curiosity about history's tortured. She feels much the same way about bullfights. She advises parents to explain the mythological and historical background of bullfighting to any children "capable of understanding and reason" and then take them to a major corrida. "Whether your children are horrified or think it enormously exciting, I think, in light of its past history and present pageantry, a bullfight is a fine addition to a child's education, and I can't imagine going to Spain and not seeing...