THE BULLS OF PAMPLONA ARE ON THE LOOSE AGAIN!
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Sanfermises 2023 kicks off on Thursday, 6 July, and will close to the tune of “¡Pobre de mí!” on Friday, 14 July.
Check out this year’s programming and all else you need to know here.
Hemingway, left, with wife Hadley Richardson, Duff Twysen, British socialite (in hat), and American writers Harold Loeb, Donald Ogden Stewart (obscured), and Pat Guthrie, Duff’s lover, at a cafe in Pamplona, July 1925.
The running of the bulls in Pamplona has been there for centuries. In 1923 Ernest Hemingway came to the sanfermines for the first time, would return some 30 times more. He would probably have kept on coming back if he hadn’t shot himself. . . His last rendezvous with the bulls of Pamplona was in 1959. He died in 1961 but not before winning a Pulitzer Award in 1953 and the Nobel Prize for literature the next year.
In 1926 his novel, The Sun Also Rises, is published: “From the crowd of youths came a yell: ‘Hah! Hah! . . . Toro!’ The bulls lowered their heads, charged the crowd. The crowd took to its heels, the bulls stampeding in pursuit.”
The Sun Also Rises, first edition, 1926
The Sun Also Rises is conceivably the best sales pitch the sanfermises ever got, giving it the global exposure that no other running of the bulls elsewhere has ever enjoyed.
For Hemingway’s “love affair” with the bullish festival check out https://www.sanfermin.com/en/party-guide/hemingway-and-sanfermin/
For GUIDEPOST’s own accounts, here are a few you might want to read:
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Images
Featured image: GUIDEPOST montage (Running of the bulls/Asier Solana Bermejo, CC BY-SA2.0 via Wikimedia Commons, cropped. Overlay of sanfermines balcony scene/Adam Jones, CC BY-SA2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Partial face blotout supplied. Vignetted.)
Hemingway and company/author unspecified. Pic owned by the JFK Presidential Library and Museum, PD via Wikipedia
The Sun Also Rises, Jacket design by Cleo Damianakes–Heritage Auctions, cropped by the uploader. PD via Wikipedia
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