![]() ![]() Statue of Carmen on the Paseo Alcalde Marqués de Contadero, Seville The guide tells the author that the man is the robber known as Don José Navarro and leaves to turn him in, but the author warns Don José, who escapes. ![]() They stay in the same primitive inn that night. ![]() Instead of fleeing, the author befriends the man by sharing cigars and food. While searching for the site of the Battle of Munda in a lonely spot in Andalusia, the author meets a man who his guide hints is a dangerous robber. (Every woman turns sour/Twice she has her hour/One is in bed/The other is dead).įor readers of Ancient Greek, this set the theme of the tale: a ferocious woman, sex, and death. The work is prefaced by an untranslated quotation from the poet Palladas: Mérimée tells the story as if it had really happened to him on his trip to Spain in 1830. Only the first three appeared in the original publication in the October 1, 1845, issue of the Revue des deux Mondes (Review of the Two Worlds) the fourth first appeared in the book publication in 1846. ![]()
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