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The Bullfighters

work by Montherlant

Also known as: “Les Bestiaires”

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In bullfighting: Bullfighting and the arts
…de Montherlant’s Les Bestiaires (1926; The Bullfighters) also deals with the matador’s ever-present threat of death in the ring.
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discussed in biography

In Henry de Montherlant
Les Bestiaires (1926; The Bullfighters), a novel about bullfighting, records his feverish search for the peacetime equivalents of the physical excitement, heroism, and comradeship he had found at the front during his two years of service in World War I.
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