Don Manuel lived many years in Germany. Now he is back in his Spain. He is known here as the poets and thinkers. If he's good mood, he carries in public in front of his poems. A philosopher and Tauromaquia , which could match. And in fact, he shares the passion of Aficion . We talked about the foreign antitaurinos and there was his attitude clear. The Tauromaquia must be in a different, consider a spiritual dimension. "When foreign opponents of bullfighting, the Aficion ask their passion with a diagnosable logic to justify, is the doomed to failure already in its approach to. But they do it anyway, so they say then can the Aficion running out of arguments. "
Professor Rainer sees bishop of Vienna is similar: "The corrida is an emotional natural event that can only be understood spiritually. " Here comes the man against nature. The force of the bull, the sun's heat, light and shade, the humidity of the rain, the unpredictability of the wind and the dusty sand. In addition to these natural forces must be the matador also claim before the public. In the tendidos a lively cross-section is sitting through the whole society. And they want to see it, how it itself is not capable. Where they do not muster the courage to do. "A mystery play of death" so Bishop , "the representation of death in life." A regular ritual that break the torero not.
The English writer Antonio Gala said in an interview "to corrida understood to have to hand it to the mind wander.'s Own fantasies to encourage artful create." This spiritual dimension seems to be the bridge to be artificial creativity. to see things which would otherwise remain hidden in a logical approach. "His work with the muleta was artful, noble and beautiful and close enough to a wonderful, despite his ever-present sense of security to give tragedy ".. , Hemingway wrote in 1959 in these words, you guessed Although the drama, but the thought of a cruel event is far more
In Gustavo Vila Tusa we read " The Toreo of Antonio Ordoñez is forgetting and recovery. He is the recovery of the rushing spring that brings the art of bullfighting. Like a river, soaking the crystal clear water, the last days of the history of Toreo because he wants to adapt to any course. " who choose such words sees more than others, but especially so because he did this thoughts towards opens.
Many years ago I met after a bullfight Carmen from Switzerland. She found the corrida repulsive. When asked my friend out because they would have the paso dobles found, they looked back just amazed "Music has also given?" She had their consciousness only to banderillas that pica the estoque and fixed in the blood. The rest they simply had not noticed. Do not perceive. Besides just the blood. "There was the first drop of blood and blossomed, blood received the earth, and they consumed on such a terrible beast that can not be satisfied, "so it looked Pablo Neruda .
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Rainer Bischof, Sacred Marriage, Böhlau Verlag, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar, 2006
Ernest Hemingway, Dangerous Summer, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1986
Gustavo Vila Tusa, la corrida, Ediciones Castell , Barcelona, 1979
Pablo Neruda, Ceremonial Chants (seals II), Luchterhandverlag, Berlin 1967