Pifias mentales el cordobes biography

‘Or I’ll Dress You in Mourning’, which I have just re-read, was a brilliantly-written atmospheric biography of Manuel Benítez El Cordobés by the journalists Larry Collins and Dominque Lapierre (who has recently died). It is based around the matador’s confirmación de alternativa in Madrid on May 20, 1964.

Book Review: 'Or I'll Dress You In Mourning' by Larry Collins ...

His performance that day, which ended in a cornada grave, is described in detail, while around this is woven the story of El Cordobés’s beginnings and the Civil War and post-Civil War experiences of his home town, Palma del Río, constructed from a series of interviews with key characters. It’s an absorbing portrait both of the torero and of Spain on the cusp of modernity.

Now, over a half century since that classic biography’s publication, along comes another biography of the Cordoban, ‘El Cordobés y el Milagro Pop’ by Fernando González Viñas, published by the new taurine imprint El Paseíllo.

The blurb on the book’s back cover spe Retro Zapping | El informal (1998 - 2002 ...

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