Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

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Death in the Afternoon

(1932) marked a departure from the fiction-writing career of Ernest Hemingway. A study of the Spanish bullfight, the book grew out of the author's keen interest in an event that he insisted was a tragedy, not a sport. By the time he began work on

Death in the Afternoon

, Hemingway had already published a lengthy short story, “The Undefeated”, and a novel,

The Sun Also Rises

, both of which drew upon his considerable knowledge of the

corrida de toros

. The new book was intended to follow up an early article Hemingway had published in the

Toronto Star Weekly

which explained the bullfight to an English-speaking audience.

At first Hemingway had intended the volume to be mainly a picture book, for which he would write a narrative. But as he continued to study the

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Citation: Fleming, Robert E.. "Death in the Afternoon". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 July 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5731, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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