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Nonfiction, Bullfighting

Death in the Afternoon

  • Author: Ernest Hemingway
  • First published: 1932

Synopsis

Hemingway’s 1932 book on Spanish bullfighting — technique, ethics, and the corrida as a way to write about courage, death, and Spain between the wars.

Source: Open Library (edited as needed)

My commentary

Author honors: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953); Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)