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The Blood of the Arena

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

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Before a bullfight in Madrid, Juan Gallardo sits in his hotel dining room, balancing pride in his fame against fear of the coming contest. Admirers gather around him, trading memories of earlier matadors and asking after his family. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's novel follows a Spanish bullfighter whose public success brings attention, demanding engagements, and constant exposure to danger. The opening makes his careful clothes, expensive ornaments, and private anxiety part of the same portrait.

Away from the plaza, the story enters the countryside, where Gallardo receives the armed bandit Plumitas at a farmhouse. Their formal greetings and the workers' curiosity reveal how reputation shapes encounters beyond the ring. Readers interested in the pressures of celebrity will find a close view of the performer and his audience, alongside scenes of Spanish social life. In Frances Douglas's English translation, public admiration sits alongside the strain of earning it.

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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) was a Spanish novelist, journalist and politician who also worked as a screenwriter and film director. His fiction is associated with literary realism, and several of his books were adapted into Hollywood films. His titles include "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse".

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Pages
229
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English
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