| dc.description.abstract | Reymont wrote the short story, Los toros,in the year 1907 after coming back from Spain, where he witnessed a corrida
in San Sebastián. The choice of the genre was intentional. The writer used it to reflect the realities of life and
depict a group portrait of Spaniards, in which he succeeded without a doubt, using all with his literary imagination
and ability to make his works metaphoric. Baffled by the corrida as an element of Spanish culture, Reymont did not
express his moral approval of torturing animals (bulls and horses) on stage. On the contrary, his narration is full
of sympathy and expressions that indicate emotional engagement. The turning point, the act of pardon performed by
the young shepherd and the narrator’s friend towards the bull, indicates that Reymont’s reception of the corrida
was empathic. Now, we had two conclusions on the contesting of the phenomenon. Reymont’s work was used by the
French Chamber of Deputies as a literary example of disapproval of bloody spectacles that are justified by
tradition. | en |
