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    The Death of Manolete
    The Death of Manolete
    The Death of Manolete
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    The Death of Manolete

    By Barnaby Conrad

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    On Thursday, August 28, 1947, a 30-year-old millionaire named Manuel Laureano Rodriguez— Manolete— and a Miura bull named Islero killed each other. In The Death of Manolete, Barnaby Conrad recounts the extraordinary life and demise of this young bullfighter, from the childhood that made the Spanish boy and the sacrifice that made the man to the girl who brought him love and the acclaim that brought him incredible success. A symbol of Latin pride, valor, and chivalry, Manolete fired the Latin imagination as no one had done since El Cid. But the crowds owned him, and on one fateful afternoon in the town of Linares, he did their bidding— and an untimely death snuffed out the brightest flame in Spain. Featuring more than 250 images, this photo-narrative provides a stirring farewell to a beloved bullfighter.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhoenix Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 1, 2007
    ISBN9781614670148

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      The Death of Manolete - Barnaby Conrad

      Copyright © 2007 Barnaby Conrad and Phoenix Books and Audio Inc.

      All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from the publisher to use or reproduce any part of this book, except brief quotations in critical reviews and articles.

      The opinions expressed in this book are those of the author of this book and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher or its affiliates.

      ISBN: 1-59777-548-7

      Originally published in hardcover: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-In-Publication Data Available

      Cover and book design by: Sonia Fiore

      Jacket paintings by: the author

      Conversion to ebook by www.wordzworth.com

      Phoenix Books

      9465 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 315

      Beverly Hills, CA 90212

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3

      This is Manuel Laureano Rodríguez

      The Greatest Matador of Modern Times

      This is Islero, of Miura

      Out of the cow Islera

      By the Bull Formalito

      Here, in the town of Linares, they are going to kill each other today

      For Mary

      Author’s Note

      This book is an attempt to recreate faithfully with words and photographs the day Manolete was killed. However, just as the pictures used to illustrate how Islero developed from a calf to a bull could not actually be of that very Miura, so not all the photographs of Manolete and Dominguín needed to tell the story were taken that fatal day. Enough photographs of the actual corrida in Linares simply do not exist; therefore some supplementary photographs taken on other days had to be used.

      B.C.

      MANUEL LAUREANO RODRÍGUEZ Y SÁNCHEZ was born in Córdoba on July 4, 1917, the year the immortals of the ring, Joselito and Belmonte, had their most competitive and glorious season. Manuel’s mother was the widow of the matador Lagartijo Chico before she married Manuel’s father.

      Manuel’s father was a fairly successful though far from great matador who used the name Manolete as a nom de taureau as had his father before him. The first Manolete had a brief career as a banderillero before retiring to the safer profession of butcher; he had been overshadowed by his famous brother Pepete.

      José Rodríguez, called Pepete, was large and ungraceful in the arena, but he was considered one of the bravest men who ever confronted a bull. Rather than ever having to conquer any fear, he simply did not recognize what that emotion was. Once when a rival had outdone him in the capework of the quites, Pepete went out determined to do anything to triumph. When the bull’s horns pulled the cape from his hands, Pepete snatched a bandanna from the pocket of his chaquetilla and gave the animal four hair-raising passes with no more protection than that small cloth.

      In 1862, when Pepete was 38 years old, he signed for a corrida in Madrid and was scheduled to kill the celebrated Miura bull Jocinero. Jocinero had a fearsome reputation, being large and almost six years old, and having been at stud for some time because of the ferocity he displayed on the ranch. But Pepete went into this fight with the same sang-froid as any other encounter. Though he was crisscrossed with scars, his courage had never diminished and he was at the peak of his career. He did his opening capework, received great applause for the closeness with which he worked, and then retired for a moment behind the fence to talk to a friend in the first row. It was the time for the picadors and Jocinero charged hard at the first horse. The animal went down and the picador was spilled directly in front of the bull’s horns. Pepete whirled when he heard the crowd scream, and with the cape still folded over his arm, he leaped over the fence between the bull and the fallen picador.

      Pepete managed to distract the animal away from the picador, but in doing so he was taken off balance and in a dangerous area. The right horn caught him, and he was lifted high up in the

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