A Fine Time Together
Lorna Scott Fox: Bullfighting, 20 July 2000
Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight
by Adrian Shubert.
Oxford, 280 pp., £15.99, July 1999,0 19 509524 3 Show More
by Adrian Shubert.
Oxford, 280 pp., £15.99, July 1999,
“... have mystified the corrida, obscuring the fact that it’s manmade – i.e. has a history. Adrian Shubert’s most bracing contention is that, far from epitomising the anti-modernity periodically mourned by Spanish intellectuals, bullfighting was from the start a sign of advanced capitalism. Rather than confirming Spain as the savage of Europe ... ”