Almost twenty bullfighting books have been published in the middle of the pandemic | Culture

The coronavirus pandemic, for which this year’s bullfighting season has been reduced by 90%, has not, on the other hand, slowed down the edition of bullfighting books, which has remained at a high level to continue to swell the very broad and historical bibliography that this artistic activity has, according to the bullfighting journalist and writer Paco Aguado.

Almost a score of bullfighting-themed works have appeared on the publishing market since the state of alarm was lifted in May, thus helping to feed the spirit of a hobby that has not had much opportunity to sit on the lines of the bullrings. .

One of the most recurrent themes of the authors has been that of the different facets of the life of the legendary right-hander Joselito El Gallo, as this year has marked the centenary of his tragic death in the arena of Talavera de la Reina ( Toledo).

And so, after the reissue of the work Joselito El Gallo, king of bullfighters, by El Paseo publishing house, have also appeared works such as Joselito and Miura, by Vicent Climent and Javier Vellón, in which all the performances of the Sevillian right-hander with the bulls of the mythical currency are reviewed. To these two works we must add Joselito El Gallo in the old square of Madrid, with all the journalistic reviews of his walkways in the capital of Spain, compiled by Manuel Hernández, and Two and a half seasons, the triumph of Joselito, of the Carrasco and Carmen del Castillo brothers.

And as for the relationship of this great bullfighter with the city of Talavera, the titles have emerged The last twenty-four hours of Joselito El Gallo, by José Luis Cantos in the Círculo Rojo publishing house, and Joselito and Talavera, one hundred years, published by the historical research collective Arrabal from the town of Toledo.

Likewise, the activity of the Bilbao publishing house La Cátedra has been very estimable, which has published three interesting works, among which stands out Doctor Jacinto Segovia Caballero, in which Antonio Fernández Casado recovers the figure of this almost forgotten character who was a surgeon in the Madrid square, a socialist militant and, finally, exiled in Mexican lands.

In this same publishing house, in its Basque Bullfighting Collection, the books have also appeared this year From Durango to Burgos, the story written by Gregorio del Santo and Miguel Ángel Salinas about Domingo Mendívil, the first alternative Basque bullfighter, and Memoirs from Bilbao of a magazine rack from Madrid, with reviews of the manners chronicles of the Bilbao fair bullfights signed in the newspaper ABC by Antonio Díaz Cañabate.

The Seville Bullfighting Studies Foundation has not reduced the editorial volume either, which, in addition to number 23 of its Journal of Bullfighting Studies, now dedicated to the historical herds of Andalusia, it has published in collaboration with the University of Seville Silvia Caramella’s thesis Spanish bullfighting cinema, a cultural history.

As for current bullfighters, the works have been published in the same capital of Seville Manuel Jesús El Cid, a natural bullfighter, by El Paseo and signed by Carlos Crivell, and Jesulin 3.0, from Sevilla Press editions, in which Alfredo Sánchez reviews the biography of the popular bullfighter Jesulín de Ubrique, both in the ring and in his media aspect.

In that same field you could also register In the privacy of my dreams, where the young sword groom Daniel Rosado, currently under the command of Enrique Ponce, discovers the most intimate part of the professional life of bullfighters, as seen by his valet.

And, to add to the multiple works in defense of bullfights, the veteran journalist and writer José Carlos Arévalo has published, with the new Tauromagia publishing house, the last work of his extensive bibliography, entitled Bullfighting in question. Arguments for a UNESCO report, in which it offers the keys to the absolute cultural validity of bullfighting in current times.

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