Thursday, 04 February 2010 10:15

In a few days is the anniversary of Larra, secular pattern of journalists. In his exhibition hanging in the National Library of Madrid until February 14th we are a criticism against the feasts of bulls, something unusual in their time. It was a paragraph of his article Bullfights, and said this:

"So on Monday, and it seems that the people of Madrid have not lived seven days a week for the day but must rush tumultuously in cars, horses, buggies and gigs, outside the gates, and that believe that all the time is short to get to the circus, where they are going to see an animal as well as harassment, which deals with two dozen men dressed as wild animals, some on foot and some on horseback, who will contest the honor to see their guts fly with the wind in the face of a people so well appreciates this heroic mercenary. They all seem to come proud to state that they have no guts, and that his pleasure is to walk around your eyes in blood, and laugh and welcome to see the ravages of the run ".

Larra is so modern that what he wrote almost 200 years ago can be read as if he had written yesterday. Not only those citations, almost all your articles in their entirety.

From: http://blogs.20minutos.es/arsenioescolar/post/2010/01/30/larra-antitaurino-y-antitabaco