Biography of Manlet

Blogs are the post of reader Gossip, you can start writing on the site and you are on August 26. The small Spanish city of Linares is seething from extraordinary excitement. The reason for the human flood was more than significant: tomorrow a historical duel should take place between two outstanding Spanish Matadors: an unsurpassed summer manlet and summer ambitious upstart Domingin, stating that he would easily take the reputation of the best matador of Spain from Manlet.

Nine thousand spectators accommodated the Linarest arena, and all places were sold out a long time ago for fabulous money; The remaining without a ticket offered astronomical amounts to get to additional places that the administration intended to arrange. The popularity of Corrida in Spain is except for the popularity of football in the rest of Europe. However, any Spaniard would be outraged by a similar comparison: Corrida for them is not even sport, but art, ritual, and high tragedy.

Matador Manlet was a god in Spain, a knight without fear and reproach; Every self -respecting person knew his name. Over the eight years that Manoleta was in the rank of “full Matador”, he killed the bulls, but only 14 of them came from the Miuro farm, where the most powerful and ferocious animals were grown, which were specially prepared for Corrida. There were rumors that the great Manlet was avoiding the bulls of Miuro and supposedly even afraid of them.

Well, there has been an hour to dot the "i" and check if it is true. So decided none other than an upstart - Luis Miguel Dorngin. The young Matador called Madrid radio and offered to call Manlet to a public duel, they say, I am sure his time has passed, and it was time to give way to more worthy. In the evening, on the eve of the fight, Manlet sat in a restaurant near the Cervantes Hotel, where he stopped.

As always, the maestro was surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd: friends, friends, sorted out: the teals, fans and fans who looked at the hero from afar: Torero’s environment usually consists of men, women are not accepted. As always, Manlet had a sad face with huge sad eyes that did not know how to laugh. Outwardly, he resembled a knight of a sad image from popular books with pictures - he was also dry, thin and ascetic; Despite his youth, wrinkles had shaved his face, and heavy, that, that were, his eyelids testified that he was either very tired or leading an extremely difficult life.

Manolo - as his friends called him - barely answered questions, asked to constantly add his wine and smoked a lot. His manager Jose Kamara, middle -aged, a man who frowned and nervously clicked his fingers, looked at Manolo with anxiety and sometimes pointed to his watch, they say, it is time ... After all, before tomorrow, it is necessary to sleep properly, and recently with a sleep it is very unimportant: it happens, Manolo cannot close his eyes for a night and looks terrible in the morning.

How to go to battle in this state? It’s easier for me, ”Manolo smiled and resolutely knocked over his glass. Today I did not want to go to the hotel today. If his will, he would have sat, plunged into his thoughts, among the people who were hanging out and rushing around. The loneliness of an empty number and the prospect of insomnia scared. Manolo glanced at his watch: half of the first.

Matador before the battle is ordered to lie down no later than midnight, otherwise the body and nerves will obey poorly, his opponents - bulls - in this sense amazing animals, they record the slightest non -concern and attack when you are not protected. Finally, Manlets rose, and those who saw Matadora for the first time noted his extraordinary thinness, a summer boy could be so thin and transparent.

Manlet, accompanied by Kamara, went out into the street, they smelled of the aroma of southern night in their face. Somehow, accompanied by a human stream, they reached the hotel, and then the crowd began to grow quickly, because another magnet appeared on the opposite side of the street-Luis Miguel Dorngin. The smiling young handsome deftly distributed autographs, managing to wink at the beauties and even send them air kisses.

The best number of Linares’s best hotel was amazed at an old -fashioned luxury: a bed under a velvet canine, ancient high chairs with gilded backs. Saying goodbye to Kamara, Manlet with a familiar gesture pulled a photograph of Antonita, always lying at the heart, and carefully leaned against a crystal countess with water. Antonita shone with a smile, dimples were designated on a round face, heavy brown hair scattered on the shoulders, beautiful slender legs in a skirt to the knee were displayed.

I need you to be here! When will you come? These desperate calls obviously did not reach the ears of the Antonites, but I heard Kamara perfectly, who habitually frozen under the door of Manolo in anticipation of the sounds and his ward will finally settle down to sleep. Otherwise, you will have to intervene, otherwise tomorrow in the arena, Manolo will have a pale look.

And so this nimble impudent Dorngin steps on his heels!Kamara feels that the sympathies of a changeable public had already begun to lean towards a lubricated boy, and only six months ago, Manlet was the king of the Spanish Matadors. And all this snake of Anthony, which Manolo calls on his head! How much he has changed since this woman appeared in his life! That night, Manlet never closed his eye, he painfully waited for dawn.

Corrida was scheduled for half past five in the evening, so he was not too worried - he would have time to rest before the battle. For this exit in Linares, he requested an astronomical amount - thousands of pesette - and received it. Over the past three years, Manlet has become the most expensive Matador in Spain, none of his predecessors received anymore. He is a millionaire, he doesn’t peck money.

Manlet bought a luxurious mansion in his native cordov, he has a “Spanish-Suiz”, a car that he loves. And also dear, completely unnecessary clothes - when to wear fraks and costumes hanging in the wardrobe? And also countless gloves, ties, shirts, cufflinks? All this would make up the happiness of any other person, and he comes out, to nothing. Matadora’s sewn costume sewn with gold is the only clothing he needs.

Moreover, his own house is nothing: he constantly wanders from one city to another, and the battles are painted by two years ahead. Unable to fall asleep in the morning, Manlet quickly dressed and went towards Plaz de Toros - Arena for Corrida. Entering a small chapel at the arena, he mentally thanked God - there was no one here. With relief he knelt down and began to pray: “Holy Madonna, I ask you, let me carry me this time.

Please, I pray you with all my heart ... ”No one suspected what fear was experiencing Manlet every time before going to the arena; And this despite the fact that he was considered one of the most cold -blooded matadors of his time. His desperate, crazy courage entered the legend: none of his predecessors and contemporaries knew how to stand so directly and calmly until the very last second when the horns of an angry bull were ready to pierce his body.

Outwardly it looked like this elegant, aristocratic, never smiling Matador, death seemed a trifle that was not worth attention. But in fact, every time before going to the battle, the heart of Manlet squeezed fear, and, going to the arena, he was forced to first kill his fear, and then - the bull. Fear was the main feeling that possessed Manlet constantly.

He slept with him, he tormented him in a dream, was the first emotion after awakening. To someone, and Manolo was well aware of how the unsuccessful battle ends. Matadors were his father, grandfather, a cousin of truth, only the cousin of Jose Rodriguez, nicknamed Pepeta, became an outstanding master of his field. That's who did not know fear! According to family legend, the Pepet could fight with a bull with almost bare hands, but it ended tragically: in Mu, Miura's bull pierced him through his horn.

Herk Santa Manlets chose to abandon Corrida in time and take up a much safer profession - he cut bull carcasses; As for his father - Manuel Manlet, the memory of him still caused Manolo pain. The former Matador, who had not achieved real glory, at the end of his life began to rapidly lose his vision; Once he went to his last Corrida with glasses, and the audience brutally boiled him. Soon after, he died, leaving his family, where in addition to Manolo, four more daughters grew, almost in poverty.

Thank God, no one knows that Manolo was a typical Mamenkin son and almost until 10 years held on to the skirt of Donna Angustias. The fate of his mother was dramatic: her first husband, who died in Corrida, was a Matador; The dead father of Manolo fought with the bulls. This unfortunate woman prayed only that her only son would not follow this road.

Everything related to bulls and corrida, all the photographs and newspaper clippings of Donna Angustias carefully hid from the eyes of a growing son. Glory to Madonna, timid and very painful Manolo was only interested in books; The boys in Cordatov played Matadors, but he did not even look in their direction. To the joy of his mother, he loved to sit at home, watch the sisters embroider or fool around.

Manolo was eleven when the famous Matador Juan Belmont came to Cordoba, and the guy accidentally hit Corrida with his father's father. What suddenly worked in it? Call of blood? But only after that Corrida, Manolo realized: he will become a Matador, like all men in his family. Now it seemed to him that it was not a choice, but doom, in other words, fate. Through my corpse!

Manolo knew that he would have to step over her resistance, and his mother felt it. Something that she was afraid of more than anything happened. And as if another person had gotten into the boy, some later said that it was the soul of the great Matador Pepet. Maybe the cousin of Manolo was also afraid and also overcome fear? And training began.It turned out that Manolo's congenital gift to control the bulls.

At first, he and other applicants to Torero practiced a mechanical bull, pounding with wooden swords, then went to the farm, where they had to meet young bulls for the first time. Manolo showed himself best of all, as if he was born with knowledge of how to overcome the bull. It was immediately noticed by journalists from the capital's newspaper ABC and wrote that the young manlets have “style, taste and dexterity”.

And things went. By the age of 17, Manlet had already become novelty and went to the arena with other younger Torero to warm up and irritate the bulls before the start of real deadly corrida, when Matador would enter into business. In July, the summer Manolo himself was awarded the status of Matador, having passed the rite of initiation and received the title from the famous master of Martians Laland.

Matador has the right to be called only one who kills Bykov in the final part of Corrida. When the current coach and manager Manolo - Jose Kamara first saw the summer Manolo, he was horrified by what risky techniques of young Torero: to kill the bull, he almost does not use a mulet - a red rag on a wooden handle, which is usually distracted by the animal; Allows the bull to come to itself too close, almost does not use safer side blows with a sword.

By the year, Manoleta spent 92 Corrida in six months, going to a deadly battle with bulls every other day, and sometimes every day. He was assigned the honorary title “Matadora number one”, which in Spain is awarded for the number of battles and, accordingly killed bulls. Watching how his ward was rapidly climbing up, Kamara quickly realized that he had a real golden cart.

No one else in Spain was able to enter the arena daily during the season - seven days a week, nervous breakdowns and diseases. And this despite the fact that several times Manoleta received injuries-on his arms, legs and face he remained scars as evidence that he is still a person and sometimes admits miss, although the Spaniards erected him into the status of a divine hero, a superman.