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Death in the Afternoon

Ernest Hemingway

1932·487 pages·Nonfiction

Part of The Scribner library of contemporary classics series

History & Politics Literary Fiction

This non-fiction book is Hemingway’s tribute to and justification of what he saw as the art and skill of bullfighting. Together with a potted history of bullfighting the author adds his views on what makes it more than a mere spectacle, elevating it to a ritualized display of courage encompassing everything a man needs to know about life and death.

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Death in the Afternoon

Ernest Hemingway

Part of The Scribner library of contemporary classics series

Year

1932

Pages

487

Type

Nonfiction

History & Politics Literary Fiction

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This non-fiction book is Hemingway’s tribute to and justification of what he saw as the art and skill of bullfighting. Together with a potted history of bullfighting the author adds his views on what makes it more than a mere spectacle, elevating it to a ritualized display of courage encompassing everything a man needs to know about life and death.

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