Blood and Sand. Ibanyes V.B.

“Blood and sand” - corrida, inimitable Matador, Spanish flavor. The famous Torero Juan Galardo, a native of the bottom, bathes in popular love. The crowd is enthusiastically roaring when Matador teases the angry bull and in the last second dodges his horns. Gallardo plays with fate. Each access to the arena can become the last for him, and this thought vigorously pursues him...

the illustrious Torero wants to get everything from life. Including the mysterious aristocrat Donya Sol is a spicy and exotic lover. But Corrida is cruel. The bull takes his own, and Gallardo is on the verge of life and death. It is difficult to return to the arena after being injured. Especially when the fear of the bull is constantly pursuing, and the audience requires spectacles and suicidal courage.

Poetess Margarita Pushkin wrote the song “Torero” for the rock band “Aria”, inspired by the novel by Vicente Blasko Ibanyes “Blood and Sand”.

This is a philosophical-psychological novel. Behind the apparent simplicity of the story of the life of the famous Torero Juan Gallardo, difficult questions are hidden about the essence of people and human cruelty.

“Everyone was sure that Gallardo was destined to die in the arena from the horns of the bull, and it was this confidence that made the audience applaud the audience Him with bloodthirsty enthusiasm "