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| Author | Ernest Hemingway |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| Publication date | 1932 |
| OCLC Number | 704339 |
Death in the Afternoon is a non-fiction book by Ernest Hemingway about the ceremony and traditions of Spanish bullfighting. It was originally published in 1932. The book provides a look at the history and magnificence of bullfighting, while also being a deeper contemplation on the nature of fear and courage.
Any discussion concerning bullfighting would be incomplete without some mention of the controversy surrounding it. Toward that end Hemingway commented, "anything capable of arousing passion in its favor will surely raise as much passion against it."[1]
The chances are that the first bullfight any spectator attends may not be a good one artistically; for that to happen there must be good bullfighters and good bulls; artistic bullfighters and poor bulls do not make interesting fights, for the bullfighter who has ability to do extraordinary things with the bull which are capable of producing the intensest degree of emotion in the spectator but will not attempt them with a bull which he cannot depend on to charge...
– Ernest Hemingway, from "Death in the Afternoon"[2]
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Other uses
Death in the Afternoon is also a cocktail, possibly named after the book, that is made with champagne, absinthe and possibly small amounts of lidocaine, laced with LSD.
Notes
- ^ Hemwingway 2003: p. 12, "It would be pleasant of course for those who do like it if those who do not would not feel that they had to go to war against it or give money to try to suppress it, since it offends them or does not please them, but that is too much to expect and anything capable of arousing passion in its favor will surely raise as much passion against it."
- ^ Hemwingway 2003: pp. 12-13
References
- Hemingway, Ernest (2003) [First Copywrited 1932]. Death in the Afternoon (1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.). New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 9780684801452. OCLC 53453017.
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