French Taurine
Books-in-Print

To the best of MT[I]'s knowledge, the following books can be ordered either directly from their publishers, or from bookstores, worldwide.


Le Calife (Manolete), François Zumbiehl


Connaître la Corrida
by Pierre Vidal and Michel Dieuzaide (Les Création du Pélican, 1995, ISBN: 2 9036 97 10 8, 155 Francs). Basic but full of information, good photographs, etc.
Corrida
272 pages - 24.5 x 34.5cm - Illustrations in b/w (69 in color)
Fransisco de GOYA 33 etchings of the " Tauromaquia "
Pablo PICASSO 26 etchings of the " Tauromaquia "
August PUIG 69 oils on the poem" Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias" by Garcia Lorca
Text in French, English, and Spanish.
Introduction and presentation by Nicolas Pewny. Translation into English by George Black.
The publisher of this beautiful coffee-table size/quality book has kindly offered to make the book available to any MT[I] socio for $55US (regular price is $70). If you're interested just contact him via e-mail at:
Editions du Choucas, Glapigny/Thônes (Nicolas Pewny, Publisher)
La décennie Ojeda, Lucien Clergue, Jean-Marie Magnan (Note: anytime you see Lucien Clergue's name affixed to a publication you can expect it to be beautifully illustrated. Clergue is (in the Webmeister's opinion, anyway) the best French taurine photographer, a man of great artistry (witness his beautiful, abstract, color photos) and afición (he's a one-time torero).

Une faena de Curro Romero, Lucien Clergue , Jean-Marie Magnan

De Federico García Lorca à Maurice Ohana--LLanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, texts in French and Spanish by José Bergamín, François Zumbiehl, Frédéric Deval, Christine Prost, Francis Marmande, Nicolas Zourabichivili, Emilio Casares Rodicio. Actes Sud, 1992, 139 pages, 21 x 11 cm. (Maurice Ohana is a French musician who wrote a music for the LLanto) The texts are very good. Bergamin gives a very precise description of Mejías death.)


Miroir de la tauromachie, Michel Leiris with illustrations by André Masson. Fata Morgana 1989- 74 pages 22 x 14 cm. (Michel Leiris, a french poet, wrote a lot of texts about great painters.)


Nimeño II, torero de France, Lucien Clergue, Alain Montcouquiol, Jean Cau


Le syndrome du Toro, textes de N. Lutchmaya, dessins du Matador de Toros André Viard. Editions de Camargue.30 x 21 cm.180 pages. (Plenty of humor and very interesting texts. For "aficionados experimentados."


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