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Overview
Hemingway's marvelling take on Spanish-style bull-fighting - for him a spectacular performance art fraught with risk - is but one among many preposterous evasions of the gross reality that animates one of today's most contested public spectacles. In Bullfighting, A troubled history, the first-ever cross-cultural study of the subject, Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier examines at length and in depth the corruptions, cruelties and delusions that over the centuries have in turn made and sustained the world of celebrity cape-and-sword 'artists' decked out in fantastically gaudy suits.
The fighting bull has been systematically bred for aggression over many centuries,...