S\u00e1nchez Mej\u00edas was very close to the Generation of ’27. In addition to being a bullfighter, he was a patron of the arts, writer, playwright, lecturer, president of the Red Cross in Seville, president of the Betis soccer team… S\u00e1nchez Mej\u00edas meant for the poets of ’27 the fascination for bullfighting as a vehicle of artistic expression.<\/p>\n
Bullfighting attracted almost all its members, but especially Jos\u00e9 Bergam\u00edn<\/a>, Rafael Alberti<\/a> (who also dedicated an elegy to the bullfighter and another, at the request of S\u00e1nchez Mej\u00edas himself, to the memory of the bullfighter Joselito, who died in Talavera seven years earlier), Jorge Guill\u00e9n, Pedro Salinas<\/a>, Gerardo Diego<\/a> and Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca.<\/p>\n In the case of Federico, the following phrase remains: “What would become of the Spanish spring, of our blood and our language, if the dramatic clarions of the bullfight were to cease to sound”. In a statement, a year before his death, he had already said: “Bullfighting is probably the greatest vital poetic wealth of Spain”. The artistic union of the friends had been linked forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-7694","vinculo_obra_literar","type-vinculo_obra_literar","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vinculo_obra_literar\/7694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vinculo_obra_literar"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vinculo_obra_literar"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.universolorca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}